{"id":34726,"date":"2023-05-15T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T08:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=34726"},"modified":"2023-05-15T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T08:53:08","slug":"saving-two-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/05\/saving-two-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Two Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 31-year-old\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/feel-good\/i-didnt-have-time-to-think-i-just-went-says-uk-tourist-who-saved-the-lives-of-two-people-in-cape-town-29f97c58-46fb-41e2-be54-58daa354cc93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Ironman athlete<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0from England was vacationing in South Africa and saved TWO lives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toby Finneran of the United Kingdom noticed a young boy struggling on the beach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I saw a head bobbing in the surf amid the kelp,&#8221; Finneran said. Being a strong swimmer,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finneran dove into the water and helped the boy onto a buoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After Finneran pulled the boy to shore, he saw an adult in the water, face down. This person may have also been trying to help the young boy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;My heart raced, and I ran over, administering first aid with the help of my surgeon friend, putting the person in the recovery position and monitoring their breathing,&#8221; Finneran said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both the boy and the adult were then treated by emergency services and appeared to be recovering from the terrifying incident<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":32955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 20:54:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/05\/saving-two-lives\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34726","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=34726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34727,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34726\/revisions\/34727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}