{"id":330518,"date":"2025-12-04T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330518\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:51:07","slug":"a-baby-seal-walks-into-a-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330518\/","title":{"rendered":"A baby seal walks into a bar &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A bar owner in Richmond, New Zealand has said she was shocked to find a baby seal had entered her bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Bella Evans assumed the visitor was a dog before she took a closer look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">After luring the seal out of its hiding place using a salmon pizza topping, the animal was safely returned to the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Bar staff &#8220;did a great job keeping the seal safe&#8221; until rangers arrived, said Department of Conservation spokesperson Helen Otley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bar owner in Richmond, New Zealand has said she was shocked to find a baby seal had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-330518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330518","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=330518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}