{"id":498693,"date":"2026-03-27T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498693\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:11:09","slug":"twyford-school-pupils-join-hunt-for-runaway-capybara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498693\/","title":{"rendered":"Twyford school pupils join hunt for runaway capybara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The children have been very excited,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some of them have been down the Itchen looking for the capybara, and there was a lot of hope it might turn up close to the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve had some children make missing posters, and some have even used it for their homework and written poems about Samba.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One pupil, nine-year-old Rupert, wrote a poem about the escape, which included the lines: &#8220;[Samba] was seen by the Itchen, eating a chocolate bar. Someone said she&#8217;d been in their kitchen, trying to play the guitar.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The children have been very excited,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Some of them have been down the Itchen looking for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-498693","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\/498693","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=498693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}