{"id":848,"date":"2012-07-22T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2012-07-22T21:13:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T04:13:11","slug":"marine-drowns-in-american-river-after-current-pulls-him-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Marine Drowns In American River After Current Pulls Him Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/CBSSAC.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=667947;hostDomain=video.sacramento.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=585;playerHeight=388;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7530262;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.SAC%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/video.sacramento.cbslocal.com\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was tragedy along the American River Saturday afternoon when four military buddies were hoping to cool off.<\/p>\n<p>Three made it across the river but one didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to swim and catch him and he went under,\u201d said Chris Crotte, the victim\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n<p>Crotte did all he could to save his friend, Michael Berry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was pretty dramatic,\u201d said one witness.<\/p>\n<p>As hundreds of people were enjoying the afternoon sun along the American River near Hagan Park, four buddies decided to cool off and swim across.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree made it but one didn\u2019t,\u201d said Walt White, Sacramento Metro Fire.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a title=\"CBSLocal.com\" href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2012\/07\/21\/u-s-marine-drowns-at-american-river-after-current-pulls-him-under\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBSLocal.com<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There was tragedy along the American River Saturday afternoon when four military buddies were hoping to cool off. Three made it across the river but one didn\u2019t. \u201cI tried to swim and catch him and he went under,\u201d said Chris Crotte, the victim\u2019s friend. Crotte did all he could to save his friend, Michael &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine Drowns In American River After Current Pulls Him Under<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rafting","category-safety","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}