{"id":17739,"date":"2026-06-24T05:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17739"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:50:22","slug":"body-found-after-search-for-tauranga-missing-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17739","title":{"rendered":"Body found after search for Tauranga missing man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"font-serif-text leading-normal mb-12\">\n<p>Police have found a body in the search for a missing man in Tauranga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"font-serif-text leading-normal mb-12\">\n<p>The body was found by officers off the Pahoia Peninsula on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"font-serif-text leading-normal mb-12\">\n<p>While a formal identification process is underway, the body is believed to be that of 56-year-old man Aaron Franklin, who was reported missing earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"font-serif-text leading-normal mb-12\">\n<p>Police have been in contact with the man&#8217;s family and are providing them the necessary support.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have found a body in the search for a missing man in Tauranga. The body was found by officers off the Pahoia Peninsula on Thursday evening. While a formal identification process is underway, the body is believed to be that of 56-year-old man Aaron Franklin, who was reported missing earlier this month. Police have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/17739","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=17739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17740,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions\/17740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}