{"id":56478,"date":"2025-08-03T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/56478\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:58:07","slug":"shark-sighting-at-reid-state-park-prompts-brief-water-closure-for-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/56478\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark sighting at Reid State Park prompts brief water closure for safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGETOWN, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Another shark has been spotted near a Maine beach, this time at Reid State Park.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sagadahoc County Emergency Management, an 8-9 foot shark was found about 200 feet offshore Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Officials closed the water from swimming for a short time, but it&#8217;s back open now, but this is not the first shark sighting of the summer, far from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEORGETOWN, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Another shark has been spotted near a Maine beach, this time at Reid State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[5300,28495,10482,42555,2785,42557,79,8207,42556,201],"class_list":["post-56478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-beach","tag-georgetown","tag-maine","tag-reid-state-park","tag-safety","tag-sagadahoc-county","tag-science","tag-shark","tag-water-closure","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56478","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=56478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}