{"id":256303,"date":"2026-05-03T06:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256303\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:20:32","slug":"12-year-old-west-michigan-boy-reels-in-shark-off-coast-of-florida-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256303\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old West Michigan boy reels in shark off coast of Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local boy had the catch of a lifetime in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>12-year-old Noah VanAmeyden from East Leroy reeled in a shark off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p><p>12-year-old Noah VanAmeyden catching a shark off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Mike VanAmeyden\/WWMT)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The shark had the appearance of a great white, although its species is unconfirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The shark was able to unhook itself, according to Noah&#8217;s dad, Mike. Great catch, Noah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local boy had the catch of a lifetime in Florida. 12-year-old Noah VanAmeyden from East Leroy reeled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-256303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}