{"id":3951,"date":"2017-04-26T19:58:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2017-04-26T19:58:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:58:22","slug":"watch-dead-whale-removed-from-chadwick-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2017\/04\/watch-dead-whale-removed-from-chadwick-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Dead Whale Removed from Chadwick Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBarnegatBayIsland%2Fvideos%2F1654021294615704%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=400\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A dead whale that washed up onshore in the Chadwick Beach section of Toms River was being removed from the beach by heavy equipment by 6 p.m. Wednesday, as researchers from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center search for the reason it died.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, it appears that a ship strike may have injured \u2013 and possibly killed \u2013 the massive marine mammal, which drew a crowd on the foggy beach Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, based in Brigantine, began cutting up the whale&#8217;s body so it could be removed and a necropsy could be performed. The center said late Wednesday that the ship strike seemed the most likely cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/2017\/04\/watch-dead-whale-removed-from-chadwick-beach\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dead whale that washed up onshore in the Chadwick Beach section of Toms River was being removed from the beach by heavy equipment by 6 p.m. Wednesday, as researchers from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center search for the reason it died. Initially, it appears that a ship strike may have injured \u2013 and possibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3952,"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":[18,17],"tags":[366,1095,48,62],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-shore-environment","tag-chadwick-beach","tag-dead-whale","tag-ortley-beach","tag-toms-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-26-at-7.52.25-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-11J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","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=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}