{"id":3240,"date":"2006-05-23T13:32:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T17:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/23\/3240"},"modified":"2006-05-23T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T17:32:34","slug":"child-swims-from-alcatraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/child-swims-from-alcatraz\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Swims From Alcatraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/alcatraz-swimmer.jpg\" alt=\"Braxton Bilbrey\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themilwaukeechannel.com\/news\/9252020\/detail.html?treets=mil&#038;tid=2656454960813&#038;tml=mil_irr&#038;tmi=mil_irr_1_01300105222006&#038;ts=H\" rel=\"external\"><strong>TheMilwaukeeChannel.com:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>PHOENIX &#8211; A 7-year-old boy has become one of the youngest &#8212; if not the youngest &#8212; person to swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco&#8217;s Aquatic Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Braxton Bilbrey is a second-grader from Arizona who has completed several short-scale youth triathlons. Bilbrey was accompanied on the estimated 1.4 mile swim by his coach, two other swimmers and a Coast Guard boat.<\/p>\n<p>As he reached shore, Braxton was besieged by reporters. He told them he considered his accomplishment &#8220;pretty cool.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Asked what the hardest part was, he replied: &#8220;The swimming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the strong current was a problem, he said: &#8220;Not really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And asked about being a &#8220;brave little boy,&#8221; Braxton responded: &#8220;I think I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 7-year-old says he got the idea to swim from Alcatraz when he saw a magazine story about a 9-year-old boy who made the swim.<\/p>\n<p>Braxton has been training two hours a day, four times a week. He also made training swims in several Arizona lakes and made a trip to the San Francisco Bay last month.<\/p>\n<p>Braxton said he hopes to raise awareness and money for drowning prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TheMilwaukeeChannel.com: PHOENIX &#8211; A 7-year-old boy has become one of the youngest &#8212; if not the youngest &#8212; person to swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco&#8217;s Aquatic Park. Braxton Bilbrey is a second-grader from Arizona who has completed several short-scale youth triathlons. Bilbrey was accompanied on the estimated 1.4 mile swim by his coach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}