{"id":327911,"date":"2026-07-03T00:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327911\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:14:43","slug":"news4jax-at-1030-a-m-jacksonville-zoo-releases-manatee-back-into-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327911\/","title":{"rendered":"News4JAX+ at 10:30 a.m.: Jacksonville Zoo releases manatee back into the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0July 1, 2026 at 6:09 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 coHFxg kVVZcY\">A Florida manatee&#8217;s road back to the wild can take months\u2014and sometimes years\u2014of around-the-clock care.\u00a0Recently, the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens celebrated a major milestone, releasing a rescued manatee named Alpine back into Florida waters.\u00a0Joining us this morning is Curtis Dvorak from the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens to take us behind the scenes of Alpine&#8217;s remarkable recovery\u2014and explain why every successful release is a win for Florida&#8217;s waterways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0July 1, 2026 at 6:09 PM A Florida manatee&#8217;s road back to the wild can take months\u2014and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,135426],"class_list":["post-327911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news4jax-at-1030-a-m-jacksonville-zoo-releases-manatee-back-into-the-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}