{"id":42073,"date":"2014-08-26T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=42073"},"modified":"2014-08-26T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:00:26","slug":"ghanaian-exchange-student-dies-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=42073","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian exchange student dies in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifeguards and dive teams in California on Sunday recovered the body of a 17-year-old exchange student from Ghana whose kayak capsized near San Diego, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Razak Shanun&#8217;s body was spotted near San Diego&#8217;s Mission Bay during a search, San Diego Lifeguards said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is believed that the kayaker was not wearing a life jacket,&#8221; before he capsized, lifeguards said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Shanun had rented the kayak on Saturday, heading out on the west side of Mission Bay where he capsized and drowned, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether he had a life jacket in the kayak, and if so, why he chose not to wear it.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was an exchange student at Balboa City School, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifeguards and dive teams in California on Sunday recovered the body of a 17-year-old exchange student from Ghana whose kayak capsized near San Diego, officials said. Abdul Razak Shanun&#8217;s body was spotted near San Diego&#8217;s Mission Bay during a search, San Diego Lifeguards said. &#8220;It is believed that the kayaker was not wearing a life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}