{"id":176963,"date":"2026-02-13T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176963\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:22:07","slug":"sick-sea-lion-hitches-a-ride-to-orange-county-on-familys-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176963\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick Sea Lion Hitches A Ride To Orange County On Family&#8217;s Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A hitchhiking sea lion pup got a visit from a familiar face at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can tell he&#8217;s filled out already,&#8221; father Matthew Miller said. <\/p>\n<p>Miller and his 11-year-old daughter Ellie met the little pup last month while they were sailing off the coast of San Clemente. Right away, they realized something was wrong. <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sick-sea-lion-orange-county.jpg#.jpeg\" data- \/><\/p>\n<p> The sick sea lion named Chump hopped aboard to get some help from an Orange County hospital\/Matthew Miller\/CBS News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 13, 2026 A hitchhiking sea lion pup got a visit from a familiar face at the Pacific&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-176963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}