{"id":403262,"date":"2026-09-18T05:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403262\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T05:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:16:28","slug":"rescued-manatee-released-after-recovering-from-boat-strike-near-treasure-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403262\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued manatee released after recovering from boat strike near Treasure Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A manatee was released at Eckerd College on Thursday after it spent the summer being rehabilitated at ZooTampa.<\/p>\n<p>Cascade the manatee was found with boat-related injuries in the Treasure Island area on May 13. <\/p>\n<p>It was rescued by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the\u00a0Eckerd College Search and Rescue team and was taken to the zoo to recover.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a team will move the more than 1,000-pound animal from a transport truck down the Eckerd College boat ramp using a pre-moistened tarp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A manatee was released at Eckerd College on Thursday after it spent the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-403262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403262","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=403262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}