{"id":436237,"date":"2026-05-20T06:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/436237\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:16:15","slug":"babys-body-found-on-blenheim-roadside-as-police-urgently-seek-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/436237\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby\u2019s body found on Blenheim roadside as police urgently seek family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">A r\u0101hui was placed on Wairau Bar Rd, between Ferry Rd and Dicks Rd, by local iwi Rangit\u0101ne o Wairau earlier today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">It was put in place to \u201callow police and investigators to carry out their work\u201d and will remain in effect until further notice, the iwi said on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone else with information was urged to contact police via the 105 line, or online at 105.police.govt.nz, quoting reference number P066438427.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">Wairau Bar Rd has since reopened to the public, Feltham said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A r\u0101hui was placed on Wairau Bar Rd, between Ferry Rd and Dicks Rd, by local iwi Rangit\u0101ne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[806,72157,1558,17184,7800,21818,2109,1874,42,12518,16256,6178,43,90,675,1314,49612,1870,11925,6102,45608,40,38,41,39,31092,71895],"class_list":["post-436237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-as","tag-babys","tag-been","tag-blenheim","tag-body","tag-desperate","tag-family","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-infant","tag-marlborough","tag-mother","tag-news","tag-on","tag-police","tag-road","tag-roadside","tag-search","tag-seek","tag-side","tag-sparking","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-urgently","tag-wider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}