{"id":224,"date":"2025-06-05T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:45:39","slug":"lion-bites-car-tire-causing-dramatic-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Lion Bites Car Tire Causing Dramatic Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This curious cat gave itself a sudden jumpscare when it investigated a tire too thoroughly, and ended up causing it to explode.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Obeirne, a 13-year-old on a family trip to Kruger National Park, shared his story with Latest Sightings after an unforgettable encounter on their way to breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>He said he \u201cwas with [his] family in the car on the way to breakfast at Tshokwane\u201d when they \u201cthen came upon the pride of young lions resting in and around the road\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"773\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BWu80EYkhOc\" title=\"Lion Bites Tire Causing it to Explode\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are some prides in the Kruger that are known for interacting with cars, and these lions were perfectly comfortable getting up close and personal with the vehicles to investigate them.<\/p>\n<p>Sean said that although they were the first on the scene, the \u201croad quickly filled with cars, as it tends to do in the Kruger with an amazing sighting\u201d. The lions quickly began taking a break from their busy schedule of lounging to investigate the cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This curious cat gave itself a sudden jumpscare when it investigated a tire too thoroughly, and ended up causing it to explode. Sean Obeirne, a 13-year-old on a family trip &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}