{"id":84495,"date":"2026-02-03T18:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84495"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:19:52","slug":"superhuman-teen-13-swam-for-four-hours-to-save-his-family-stranded-off-the-australian-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/03\/superhuman-teen-13-swam-for-four-hours-to-save-his-family-stranded-off-the-australian-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Superhuman&#8217; teen, 13, swam for four hours to save his family stranded off the Australian coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84496\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Joanne-Applebee-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Joanne-Applebee-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Joanne-Applebee-220x180.jpg 220w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Joanne-Applebee-360x293.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Joanne-Applebee.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A 13-year-old boy who swam four kilometres in dangerous swells to save his mother and two siblings has been hailed a hero.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/superhuman-teen-13-swam-for-four-hours-to-save-his-family-stranded-off-the-australian-coast\/ar-AA1VxbRQ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=2e779d6547234e02fe32a6a5b4d0eaa5&amp;ei=149\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A 13-year-old boy who swam four kilometres in dangerous swells to save his mother and two siblings has been hailed a hero&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Austin.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84498,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84495\/revisions\/84498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}