{"id":23055,"date":"2025-06-30T17:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23055"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:06:21","slug":"what-this-dad-captured-at-the-beach-sparked-an-urgent-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23055","title":{"rendered":"What This Dad Captured at the Beach Sparked an Urgent Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A family narrowly escaped disaster after unknowingly playing near a World War II bomb on a beach in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire. Kelly Gravell and her two young children mistook the seaweed-covered device for a buoy during a beach outing. Photos show six-year-old Erin and four-year-old Ellis jumping on the object, unaware of the danger.<\/p>\n<p>Five days later, rangers identified the object as a 70-year-old unexploded mine. A bomb squad safely carried out a controlled detonation, captured in dramatic footage. The children\u2019s father, Gareth, tweeted about the incident, joking, \u201cSo the buoy my kids were jumping on all weekend turns out to be a WWII bomb. Oops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23057\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22225\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Readmore-1-1-1-1-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family narrowly escaped disaster after unknowingly playing near a World War II bomb on a beach in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire. Kelly Gravell and her two young children mistook the seaweed-covered device for a buoy during a beach outing. Photos show six-year-old Erin and four-year-old Ellis jumping on the object, unaware of the danger. Five&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23055\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;What This Dad Captured at the Beach Sparked an Urgent Response&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23060,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions\/23060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}