{"id":97167691,"date":"2010-06-11T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/missing-u-s-yacht-girl-abby-sunderland-found-safe-in-indian-ocean\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T07:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T07:55:31","slug":"missing-u-s-yacht-girl-abby-sunderland-found-safe-in-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/missing-u-s-yacht-girl-abby-sunderland-found-safe-in-indian-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing U.S. Yacht Girl, Abby Sunderland, Found Safe in Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Abby&#8217;s parents have yet to speak with her but are relieved at her safety<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old American teenage girl was discovered safe with her damaged yacht on Friday after going missing in the turbulent Indian Ocean seas. The girl, Abby Sunderland, went missing during a brave but controversial attempt to sail solo around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spotted by an Australian search plane on Friday after she lost the mast on her vessel \u201cWild Eyes\u201d, Abby was thousands of miles from help and triggered emergency beacons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s fine, the boat\u2019s afloat and she\u2019s on it,\u201d her father Laurence Sunderland told Australia\u2019s public broadcaster ABC. \u201cIt\u2019s huge, fantastic, exciting news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abby\u2019s family has been unable to speak with her but said that rescue coordinators in Australia indicated that the pilot who spotted her reported that the boat was upright but that the rigging may have been harmed by waves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both parents are ecstatic that Abby is safe and on her way to being rescued. Laurence Sunderland, Abby\u2019s father, said she would not be resuming her round-the-world attempt after the tribulation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:<\/em><em> AFP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Abby&#8217;s parents have yet to speak with her but are relieved at her safety &nbsp; A 16-year-old American teenage girl was discovered safe with her damaged yacht on Friday after going missing in the turbulent Indian Ocean seas. The girl, Abby Sunderland, went missing during a brave but controversial attempt to sail solo around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168618,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167691\/revisions\/97168618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}