{"id":10957,"date":"2021-04-08T03:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T03:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10957"},"modified":"2021-04-08T03:43:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T03:43:47","slug":"appeal-to-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/appeal-to-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to man missing from Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for assistance to locate a man missing from the Lake Macquarie area.<br \/>\nJohn Barrett, aged 51, was last seen at Belmont on Wednesday 4 November 2020.<br \/>\nLake Macquarie Police were notified in January 2021 and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<br \/>\nPolice and family members hold concerns for his welfare due to a medical condition; John also hasn\u2019t made contact with family since November and hasn\u2019t used his bank account.<br \/>\nHe is described as being of Caucasian appearance, between 175cm to 180cm tall, with a thin build, light brown shoulder-length hair, a beard and blue eyes.<br \/>\nHe is known to frequent areas of Lake Macquarie, Newcastle and Port Stephens; he is also known to use the public transport network and other public facilities.<br \/>\nAnyone who may have seen John or that may know of his whereabouts is urged to contact police or Crime Stoppers on <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"tel:1800%20333%20000\">1800 333 000<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for assistance to locate a man missing from the Lake Macquarie area. John Barrett, aged 51, was last seen at Belmont on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Lake Macquarie Police were notified in January 2021 and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts. Police and family members hold concerns for his welfare due to a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/appeal-to-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to man missing from Lake Macquarie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}