{"id":31219,"date":"2022-09-09T05:05:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T09:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=31219"},"modified":"2022-09-09T05:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T09:05:14","slug":"fisherman-lost-at-sea-found-and-a-long-walk-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/09\/fisherman-lost-at-sea-found-and-a-long-walk-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisherman Lost At Sea Found And A Long Walk To Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Brazilian fisherman survived 11 days in the Atlantic Ocean by staying inside a frozen freezer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues was on his sinking wooden boat when he noticed the freezer was not sinking, so he jumped inside. Rodrigues said that sharks surrounded the freezer at one point, but eventually swam away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 44-year-old, who does not know how to swim, remained at sea in the freezer for 11 days until another fishing boat pulled him aboard. He was then taken to a hospital for treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I was thinking about my kids, my wife &#8230; all my family. It gave me strength and hope,&#8221; Rodrigues said. &#8220;I thought I wouldn&#8217;t be telling this story, but I&#8217;m back here.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A news outlet in Oregon did a story about a guy named Eric Akers who\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/centraloregondaily.com\/prineville-walker-gets-car\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>walked 33 miles to get to work<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0after his car broke down.\u00a0 It took six-and-a-half hours, and then he worked a full eight-hour shift.\u00a0 But here&#8217;s the good news:\u00a0 By Friday, he already had a new ride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a guy named Chris Arsenault heard about it, he and his wife decided to give Eric one of THEIR cars.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an old 1997 Honda but still runs great.\u00a0 Chris said he was impressed Eric still went to work, so he wanted to help him out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 09:58:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/09\/fisherman-lost-at-sea-found-and-a-long-walk-to-work\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31220,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions\/31220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}