{"id":192066,"date":"2025-10-11T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192066\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T04:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T04:37:07","slug":"duck-family-rescued-from-busy-australian-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192066\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck family rescued from busy Australian motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A family of ducks brought traffic on Perth&#8217;s Kwinana Freeway to a standstill during Friday&#8217;s morning rush hour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Main Roads, Western Australia&#8217;s motorway transport agency, posted the footage on X warning motorists to &#8220;be aware and be alert&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;If you see ducks, ducklings or wildlife attempting to cross a freeway or road, stay in your car and call for assistance,&#8221; the agency told Australia&#8217;s ABC News. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">It is the second day in a row ducks have caused &#8220;peak hour chaos&#8221; in the same place, reports ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family of ducks brought traffic on Perth&#8217;s Kwinana Freeway to a standstill during Friday&#8217;s morning rush hour.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-192066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}