{"id":57688,"date":"2019-01-09T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57688"},"modified":"2019-01-09T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T07:05:12","slug":"this-11-year-old-saved-a-man-from-drowning-by-pulling-him-from-the-bottom-of-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/01\/09\/this-11-year-old-saved-a-man-from-drowning-by-pulling-him-from-the-bottom-of-the-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"This 11-year old saved a man from drowning by pulling him from the bottom of the pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-old boy of Indian origin, Advaik Nandikotkur, is being hailed as a hero after he saved the life of a 34-year-old man who had sunk to the bottom of an indoor pool at his apartment complex in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>When Advaik&#8217;s mother noticed a man\u00a0in the deep end, about eight feet down, floating with his hands stretched out and his mouth and eyes wide open, she urged him to jump in and save him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">There were at least nine men around the pool at the time but when she yelled for help, no one responded as t<span style=\"line-height: 1.8\">hey didn&#8217;t know how to swim, his mother recalls.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">That&#8217;s when the fifth-grader swam down, grabbed the man&#8217;s wrist and pulled him to the surface.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never heard of a boy jumping in and saving an adult from a pool,&#8221; said Eagan, Minnesota, Police Officer Aaron Machtemes. &#8220;Officers on the scene commented the man was very lucky to be alive.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/03\/us\/boy-saves-man-from-drowning-trnd\/index.html?no-st=1546608191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/03\/us\/boy-saves-man-from-drowning-trnd\/index.html?no-st=1546608191<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-old boy of Indian origin, Advaik Nandikotkur, is being hailed as a hero after he saved the life of a 34-year-old man who had sunk to the bottom of an indoor pool at his apartment complex in Minnesota. When Advaik&#8217;s mother noticed a man\u00a0in the deep end, about eight feet down, floating with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}