{"id":286077,"date":"2026-07-03T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286077\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:25:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-sources-person-bit-by-shark-at-jones-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286077\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Sources Person Bit By Shark At Jones Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources tell News 12 a swimmer was bit by a shark at Field 6 at Jones Beach State Park on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The bite occurred at about noon and the person was transported to Nassau University Medical Center for treatment, sources said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It is unclear if swimming was halted, but swimmers were seen in the water at Jones Beach before 2 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hempstead Town officials confirmed that shark patrol is carefully monitoring town beaches for sharks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sources tell News 12 a swimmer was bit by a shark at Field 6 at Jones Beach State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-286077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}