{"id":2597,"date":"2025-10-14T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2597\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:09:06","slug":"missing-swimmer-from-largo-dies-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2597\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing swimmer from Largo dies | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Largo man reported missing while swimming off Clearwater Beach died shortly after he was found.<\/p>\n<p>Family members reported Joshua Westley, 34, missing around 3:30 p.m. Oct. 7, just south of Pier 60, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was found 40-50 feet from shore and was taken to Morton Plant Hospital, where he died, city officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Clearwater police and fire personnel, along with the Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, the Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, assisted in the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Largo man reported missing while swimming off Clearwater Beach died shortly after he was found. Family members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3151,3150,3152,202,204,203,199,201,200,1203],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-clearwater-beach-drawing","tag-pier-60","tag-pinellas-county-sheriff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","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=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}