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‘Cows went nuts’: Fireball meteor lights up sky, ‘sonic boom’ heard<\/a>  NZ HeraldSonic boom heard as fireball shoots across NZ skies<\/a>  Stuff‘Hell of a fright’: Fireball seen streaking across North Island skies<\/a>  1NewsSuspected fireball meteor lights up sky<\/a>  SunLiveFireball meteor lights up Canterbury skies, then falls into the sea<\/a>  The Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Cows went nuts’: Fireball meteor lights up sky, ‘sonic boom’ heard  NZ HeraldSonic boom heard as fireball shoots across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2840,74,16424,125746,2223,5658,51296,16776,305,42,27501,2514,685,4507,25140,52861,43,2551,529,29461,49645,15267,530,8861,32028,269497,40,38,41,39,810],"class_list":["post-548637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-across","tag-after","tag-boom","tag-booms","tag-confirmed","tag-experts","tag-fireball","tag-flash","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-heard","tag-island","tag-last","tag-late","tag-lights","tag-meteor","tag-news","tag-night","tag-north","tag-overhead","tag-raced","tag-reported","tag-residents","tag-sky","tag-sonic","tag-thunderous","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548637","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=548637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}