{"id":317029,"date":"2025-11-27T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/317029\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:45:08","slug":"marine-mammals-of-maine-celebrates-release-of-100th-rehabilitated-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/317029\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Mammals of Maine celebrates release of 100th rehabilitated seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHIPPSBURG, Maine (WGME) &#8212; &#8220;Seal 269&#8221; was found in Kennebunk earlier this fall and was struggling.<\/p>\n<p>The seal is called 269 because he was the 269th animal Marine Mammals of Maine encountered in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>They currently have no other seals at their facility while they prepare for an expansion so they can care for even more animals in the future.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday in Phippsburg, the organization released him; he&#8217;s the 100th seal they have rehabilitated. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>CBS13 Photojournalist David Hill followed the young seal as he made his way back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHIPPSBURG, Maine (WGME) &#8212; &#8220;Seal 269&#8221; was found in Kennebunk earlier this fall and was struggling. The seal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-317029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317029","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=317029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}