{"id":487465,"date":"2026-06-20T19:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487465\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:55:30","slug":"body-found-after-search-for-tauranga-missing-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487465\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found after search for Tauranga missing man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have found a body in the search for a missing man in Tauranga.<\/p>\n<p>The body was found by officers off the Pahoia Peninsula on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>While a formal identification process is underway, the body is believed to be that of 56-year-old man Aaron Franklin, who was reported missing earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Police have been in contact with the man&#8217;s family and are providing them the necessary support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have found a body in the search for a missing man in Tauranga. The body was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-487465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487465","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=487465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}