{"id":14915,"date":"2025-09-08T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14915"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:42:06","slug":"suspected-burglar-killed-police-officer-shot-in-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14915","title":{"rendered":"Suspected burglar killed, police officer shot in Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer has been shot and a suspected burglar is dead after a break-in in Waikato.<\/p>\n<p>The officer is in a serious condition and is talking. A second person is in custody<\/p>\n<p>The area is near where police have been searching for fugitive Marokopa father Tom Phillips and his children,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/519335\/tom-phillips-a-timeline-of-the-search-for-missing-marokopa-man-and-his-children\">who have been missing since December 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ \/ NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer has been shot and a suspected burglar is dead after a break-in in Waikato. The officer is in a serious condition and is talking. A second person is in custody The area is near where police have been searching for fugitive Marokopa father Tom Phillips and his children,\u00a0who have been missing since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14917,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions\/14917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}