{"id":76751,"date":"2026-07-30T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/father-of-boy-rescued-from-california-surf-forever-grateful-to-teen-lifeguard\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:55:20","slug":"father-of-boy-rescued-from-california-surf-forever-grateful-to-teen-lifeguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/father-of-boy-rescued-from-california-surf-forever-grateful-to-teen-lifeguard\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of boy rescued from California surf \u2018forever grateful\u2019 to teen lifeguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father of 10-year-old rescued in a dramatic scene captured on video says lifeguard saved his son<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/29\/california-ocean-rescue-teen-lifeguard\">\u2018Super proud\u2019: father of teen lifeguard recounts dramatic ocean rescue<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The father of a 10-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/29\/california-ocean-rescue-teen-lifeguard\">rescued from pounding surf off the California coast<\/a> in a dramatic scene captured on video says he is beyond grateful to the teenage lifeguard who saved his son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ran into that water despite those conditions that are deadly,\u201d Sumit Rai told the Associated Press on Wednesday. \u201cYou have 10ft waves; you have riptides and currents coming in.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/30\/boy-rescued-california-surf-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father of 10-year-old rescued in a dramatic scene captured on video says lifeguard saved his son \u2018Super proud\u2019: father of teen lifeguard recounts dramatic ocean rescue The father of a 10-year-old rescued from pounding surf off the California coast in a dramatic scene captured on video says he is beyond grateful to the teenage lifeguard &#8230; <a title=\"Father of boy rescued from California surf \u2018forever grateful\u2019 to teen lifeguard\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/father-of-boy-rescued-from-california-surf-forever-grateful-to-teen-lifeguard\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Father of boy rescued from California surf \u2018forever grateful\u2019 to teen lifeguard\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}