{"id":176569,"date":"2026-03-26T22:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176569\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:10:41","slug":"40-foot-whale-washes-ashore-onto-rockaway-beach-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176569\/","title":{"rendered":"40-Foot Whale Washes Ashore Onto Rockaway Beach In NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUEENS, NY \u2014 A dead whale washed ashore on Rockaway Beach on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-foot sei whale was spotted near Beach 95th Street, according to the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society. <\/p>\n<p>The sei whale was spotted floating in the water on Wednesday night before washing ashore on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Scientists are expected to perform a necropsy on Friday. The cause of the whale&#8217;s death has been determined yet. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 A dead whale washed ashore on Rockaway Beach on Thursday. The 40-foot sei whale was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-176569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}