{"id":7223,"date":"2024-07-27T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2024-07-27T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T12:32:25","slug":"7-year-old-swims-for-an-hour-to-get-help-for-dad-and-sister-stranded-in-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=7223","title":{"rendered":"7-year-old swims for an hour to get help for dad and sister stranded in river"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A seven-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero after he swam for an hour to get help for his family when they became stranded in a river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chase Poust was out with his father, Steven, and four-year-old sister, Abigail, on Memorial Day weekend near Mandarin Point in Jacksonville, Florida. While Steven was fishing, the current pulled Abigail away from their boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe current was so strong that my sister \u2026 let go. So, I let go of the boat and grabbed her, and then, I was stuck,\u201d Chase told WJXT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chase, not wearing a life jacket, swam to shore, alternating between doggie paddle and floating on his back. He reached land after an hour and ran for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steven explained: \u201cI screamed for help at the top of my lungs and waved my arms and sure enough someone heard us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steven and Abigail were rescued one hour later, having drifted a mile away from their boat. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue spokesperson Eric Prosswimmer said, \u201cWe couldn\u2019t ask for a better outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/smF8jW7XYC8?si=rCyc2gnaxDK7WN7F\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><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>A seven-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero after he swam for an hour to get help for his family when they became stranded in a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","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=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7225,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/7225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}