{"id":410273,"date":"2025-09-09T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410273\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:14:10","slug":"fox-found-coated-in-bitumen-finally-released-by-essex-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410273\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox found coated in bitumen finally released by Essex hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Delighted staff wrote after his release: &#8220;Three months and 17 days. That&#8217;s how long it took for this young fox to be given a second chance back in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we first saw this boy, he was stuck to the road and covered in bitumen. It&#8217;s taken countless washes and a very complex surgery to get him back on his feet, but his final leap to freedom makes every single second worth it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They described his recovery as &#8220;amazing&#8221; and thanked the many people who had shared his story and donated to the charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tar fox is finally free,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The end of an era&#8230; good luck little fox &#8211; keep out of trouble.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delighted staff wrote after his release: &#8220;Three months and 17 days. That&#8217;s how long it took for this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-410273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115174052003676803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}