{"id":6234,"date":"2014-04-08T08:36:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T00:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6234"},"modified":"2014-04-08T08:36:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T00:36:01","slug":"pennsylvania-man-drowns-saving-boy-from-rough-surf-while-vacationing-in-cancun-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/08\/pennsylvania-man-drowns-saving-boy-from-rough-surf-while-vacationing-in-cancun-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man drowns saving boy from rough surf while vacationing in Cancun, Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"ArticleTitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cancun.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6292\" alt=\"cancun\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cancun.png\" width=\"512\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cancun.png 512w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cancun-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>FARRELL, Pa. &#8211; A western Pennsylvania man has drowned while saving a young boy caught in rough surf while the man was vacationing in Cancun, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-year-old Jeff Brown, of Farrell, was vacationing with his girlfriend, Tracy Duez, and several other couples when he died on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Duez&#8217; sister, Wendy Donner, says Brown entered the water to save the boy even though there were red flags on the beach warning of a dangerous undertow. Witnesses say Brown helped the boy onto a life buoy but was himself caught in the undertow and died.<\/p>\n<p>The J. Bradley McGonigle Funeral Home is handling arrangements. A worker there says the arrangements were incomplete Monday, while the staff worked to confirm arrangements to fly Brown&#8217;s body back to western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARRELL, Pa. &#8211; A western Pennsylvania man has drowned while saving a young boy caught in rough surf while the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[1838,1706,379,1837],"class_list":["post-6234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-drowned","tag-in","tag-mexico","tag-pa","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}