{"id":29330,"date":"2017-11-08T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29330"},"modified":"2017-11-08T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:36:37","slug":"how-i-survived-being-left-to-drown-in-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/11\/how-i-survived-being-left-to-drown-in-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Survived Being Left to Drown in the Ocean. Read Story, Watch Rescue Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was during Brett Archibald\u2019s 20th hour missing at sea that the bone-tired swimmer was attacked by jellyfish \u2014 a shoal of Portuguese men-of-war who cut up his back like little razors, swirling their stinging tentacles against his red-raw skin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought: \u2018I\u2019ll die and at least it would be quick,\u2019 \u201d Archibald told <em>The Post<\/em> about one of the most terrifying episodes of his 28-hour ordeal. \u201cI consoled myself with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, against seemingly insurmountable odds \u2014 according to experts, Archibald should have perished within 10 to 14 hours \u2014 he survived to share his tale in\u00a0<em>Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean. <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/11\/04\/how-i-survived-being-left-to-drown-in-the-ocean\/?utm_campaign=partnerfeed&amp;utm_medium=syndicated&amp;utm_source=flipboard\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was during Brett Archibald\u2019s 20th hour missing at sea that the bone-tired swimmer was attacked by jellyfish \u2014 a shoal of Portuguese men-of-war who cut up his back like little razors, swirling their stinging tentacles against his red-raw skin. \u201cI thought: \u2018I\u2019ll die and at least it would be quick,\u2019 \u201d Archibald told The Post about one of the most terrifying episodes of his 28-hour ordeal. \u201cI consoled myself with that.\u201d Remarkably, against seemingly insurmountable odds \u2014 according to experts, Archibald should have perished within 10 to 14 hours \u2014 he survived to share his tale in\u00a0Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29330"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29335,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330\/revisions\/29335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}