{"id":558825,"date":"2026-08-04T15:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558825\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:20:12","slug":"missing-six-year-old-malakai-prompts-urgent-search-in-south-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558825\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing six-year-old Malakai prompts urgent search in South Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Police are conducting a search and rescue operation for missing six-year-old Malakai. Credit \/ Hayden Woodward\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police are conducting a search and rescue operation for missing six-year-old Malakai. Credit \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Police said Malakai left his home after an argument with his family and told them he was going to Rainbow\u2019s End.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">His grandmother called police when he had not returned home by 7pm. Police said Malakai did not usually go far from his house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Temperatures in the area were in the low single digits early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are conducting a search and rescue operation for missing six-year-old Malakai. Credit \/ Hayden Woodward Police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[120432,51,8278,78,149537,6501,274873,111,43,139,69,48047,1870,128004,1240,58455,25444],"class_list":["post-558825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-6yearold","tag-auckland","tag-conditions","tag-in","tag-malakai","tag-missing","tag-nearfreezing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prompts","tag-search","tag-sixyearold","tag-south","tag-underway","tag-urgent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558825","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=558825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}