{"id":304372,"date":"2025-11-21T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304372\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:34:09","slug":"bald-eagle-dropped-a-cat-through-car-windshield-driver-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304372\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald eagle dropped a cat through car windshield, driver says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2025\/11\/19\/nchp-bald-eagle-drops-cat-through-windshield-nc-highway-driver-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2025\/11\/19\/nchp-bald-eagle-drops-cat-through-windshield-nc-highway-driver-says\/\">WHNS<\/a>\/Gray News) \u2013 A driver in North Carolina told troopers a bald eagle dropped a cat through her windshield. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The woman was driving on US 74 in Swain County on Thursday around 8:15 a.m. when it happened, officials with the North Carolina Highway Patrol said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to troopers, the driver was not hurt, but the cat is dead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No other details were provided. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WHNS via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. (WHNS\/Gray News) \u2013 A driver in North Carolina told troopers a bald eagle dropped a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[158026,2256,79,158027,158028,201],"class_list":["post-304372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bald-eagle-drops-cat-on-car","tag-north-carolina","tag-science","tag-swain-county","tag-us-74","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304372","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=304372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}