{"id":899491,"date":"2026-10-30T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899491\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:02:10","slug":"dead-whale-washed-ashore-north-litchfield-beach-crews-en-route-to-examine-and-remove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899491\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead whale washed ashore North Litchfield Beach; crews en route to examine and remove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C (WPDE) \u2014 A dead whale has washed ashore on North Litchfield Beach near Shorebird Loop, according to Jackie Broach, a spokesperson for Georgetown County.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is en route to examine the animal before removal, Broach said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are asking the public to stay away from the area and keep pets away.<\/p>\n<p>Dead whales can carry diseases, and federal law prohibits touching or removing any part of the animal, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C (WPDE) \u2014 A dead whale has washed ashore on North Litchfield Beach near Shorebird Loop,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-899491","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\/899491","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=899491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}