{"id":2748,"date":"2024-03-22T15:40:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:40:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:40:48","slug":"parents-of-7-year-old-girl-who-passed-away-while-digging-a-hole-on-a-florida-beach-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=2748","title":{"rendered":"Parents of 7-Year-Old Girl Who Passed Away While Digging a Hole on a Florida Beach Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after their little girl passed away after becoming trapped in a collapsed sand hole at the beach, Sloan Mattingly\u2019s parents are speaking out.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-year-old lover of Taylor Swift and her family were enjoying a beach day in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea on February 20 when tragedy struck. According to Jason and Therese Mattingly, Sloan and her brother were digging in the sand looking for seashells when a hole unexpectedly opened up, burying both of the children alive.<\/p>\n<p>As Jason and Therese explained to Good Morning America, they were right there when the tragedy occurred and immediately started digging to save their children\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of a blur, and it\u2019s probably maybe my mind protecting myself, but it just happened so fast,\u201d Jason said of that moment. \u201cIn my mind I had her in my hands, but the weight of the sand was too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Therese added that everything happened in an instant. \u201cIt didn\u2019t matter that we were literally right there. It was just a hole and then it was nothing. And then it just becomes chaos and horror.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"684f6003e199ca137b09540a661b4c2d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M940464ScriptRootC1583286\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/k\/o\/kohajone.press.1583286.js\" async>\r\n<\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after their little girl passed away after becoming trapped in a collapsed sand hole at the beach, Sloan Mattingly\u2019s parents are speaking out. The 7-year-old lover&#8230; <\/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-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}