{"id":737967,"date":"2026-07-02T01:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737967\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T01:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:07:10","slug":"man-drowns-at-lopez-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737967\/","title":{"rendered":"Man drowns at Lopez Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man drowned at Lopez Lake this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, witnesses reported that a man was swimming with friends at around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday when he appeared to be in distress and went underwater.<\/p>\n<p>Boaters nearby were flagged down and able to locate the man and pull him out of the water, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n<p>The man has been identified as Nathan Martinez, 20, of Santa Maria.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office says CPR was performed at the scene and Martinez taken to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>The drowning is the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksby.com\/arroyo-grande\/water-rescue-underway-at-lopez-lake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">second reported<\/a> at the lake this year. <\/p>\n<p>On March 22, Sergio MendiolaGarcia, 25, of Santa Maria, drowned while swimming at the lake, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man drowned at Lopez Lake this week. According to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, witnesses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-737967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}