{"id":298244,"date":"2025-12-04T08:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298244\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:37:06","slug":"swan-that-stops-traffic-on-m1-northampton-saved-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298244\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan that stops traffic on M1 Northampton saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A confused swan was rescued by traffic officers after it brought a stretch of a motorway to a standstill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways said the bird wandered across a four-lane section of the M1 near Northampton last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CCTV footage showed vehicles had to come to a complete stop to avoid hitting the animal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adrian Woods, one of the National Highway officers involved, helped move the bird to a small lake off junction 16, resulting in &#8220;a happy ending all round&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A confused swan was rescued by traffic officers after it brought a stretch of a motorway to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-298244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298244","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=298244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}