{"id":571757,"date":"2026-08-17T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571757\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:14:09","slug":"body-found-in-water-off-dunedin-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571757\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in water off Dunedin coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A body has been found in the water near Lawyers Head in Dunedin this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to John Wilson Ocean Dr around 3.20pm after a member of the public discovered the body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The body has since been recovered, and a formal identification process is underway,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The road was cordoned off but had since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The public may see an increased police presence in the area while enquiries continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body has been found in the water near Lawyers Head in Dunedin this afternoon. Police said they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-571757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dunedin-otago","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\/571757","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=571757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}