{"id":139500,"date":"2025-09-07T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139500\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:55:06","slug":"monk-seal-spotted-at-kaimana-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139500\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk seal spotted at Kaimana Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A Hawaiian monk seal was seen hanging loose in Waikiki Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The seal was seen swimming ashore as beachgoers made way for the seal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The public is reminded to keep a distance of at least 50 feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Seal sightings can be reported to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s marine wildlife hotline at (888) 256-9840.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A Hawaiian monk seal was seen hanging loose in Waikiki Saturday. The seal was seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[76283,86967,86966,79,12858,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-139500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-hawaiian-monk-seal","9":"tag-kaimana-beach","10":"tag-monk-seal","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-waikiki","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}