{"id":415741,"date":"2026-07-28T22:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415741\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:21:06","slug":"trump-says-he-wants-to-honor-california-lifeguard-who-rescued-boy-from-pounding-surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415741\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he wants to honor California lifeguard who rescued boy from pounding surf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SSF23WG5J5FX7CVH5QX7DYB4YE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A lifeguard who dove into pounding surf to save a boy in a dramatic rescue off <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the California coast<\/a> has caught the attention of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump<\/a> , who said Tuesday that he would invite him to the White House.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"M3TZ2NN27JHJ3GJF6RTJKXGIL4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The lifeguard, who has not been identified, is being hailed as a hero after he risked his life last weekend to save the boy, who was being pulled into the ocean by powerful swells that suddenly came ashore at Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz, about 60 miles (about 100 kilometers) down the coast from San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A lifeguard who dove into pounding surf to save a boy in a dramatic rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,18,13,17,166351],"class_list":["post-415741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-general-news","tag-politics","tag-u-s-news","tag-us-california-lifeguard-child-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}