{"id":14300,"date":"2023-07-17T00:48:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T04:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=14300"},"modified":"2023-07-17T00:48:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T04:48:35","slug":"ducklings-reunited-with-mom-thanks-to-seaside-park-cops-public-works-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2023\/07\/ducklings-reunited-with-mom-thanks-to-seaside-park-cops-public-works-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducklings Reunited With Mom Thanks to Seaside Park Cops, Public Works Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14301\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Seaside Park police and public works officials helped save a family of ducks, July 15, 2023. (Photo: Seaside Park Police)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14301\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14301\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_1-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"Seaside Park police and public works officials helped save a family of ducks, July 15, 2023. (Photo: Seaside Park Police)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_1-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_1.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seaside Park police and public works officials helped save a family of ducks, July 15, 2023. (Photo: Seaside Park Police)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A group of ducklings found themselves in a precarious situation over the weekend, not only separated from their mother, but stuck in a storm drain.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses, who saw the mother duck upset that she was unable to reach her ducklings on O Street on Saturday, called police and a group of officers and public works officials got to work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14302\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Seaside Park police and public works officials helped save a family of ducks, July 15, 2023. (Photo: Seaside Park Police)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14302\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14302\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_2-1024x835.jpg\" alt=\"Seaside Park police and public works officials helped save a family of ducks, July 15, 2023. (Photo: Seaside Park Police)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_2-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_2-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_2-768x626.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_2-1536x1253.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seaside Park police and public works officials helped save a family of ducks, July 15, 2023. (Photo: Seaside Park Police)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14303\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Seaside Park police and public works officials helped save a family of ducks, July 15, 2023. (Photo: Seaside Park Police)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14303\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14303\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_3-1024x832.jpg\" alt=\"Seaside Park police and public works officials helped save a family of ducks, July 15, 2023. (Photo: Seaside Park Police)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_3-1024x832.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_3-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_3-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_3.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seaside Park police and public works officials helped save a family of ducks, July 15, 2023. (Photo: Seaside Park Police)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The officers and Seaside Park Public Works employees were able to open the storm drains and rescue the ducklings, then safely reunite them with their mother. They also received a courtesy escort to make sure sure they got safely back to the bay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2023\/07\/ducklings-reunited-with-mom-thanks-to-seaside-park-cops-public-works-officials\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of ducklings found themselves in a precarious situation over the weekend, not only separated from their mother, but stuck in a storm drain. Witnesses, who saw the mother duck upset that she was unable to reach her ducklings on O Street on Saturday, called police and a group of officers and public works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[2475,1959,32],"class_list":["post-14300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","category-seaside-heights","tag-ducklings","tag-featured","tag-seaside-park-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ducks_1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-3IE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}