{"id":4533,"date":"2011-07-27T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2011-07-27T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T18:25:27","slug":"relieved-and-impressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/07\/27\/relieved-and-impressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Relieved&#8211;and impressed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s why I&#8217;m relieved: As of early this morning, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d9publicaffairs.com\/go\/doc\/443\/1148135\/\">U.S. Coast Guard was searching<\/a> for two people who were in a Cessna that might have crashed last night in Lake Huron. The pilot&#8211;who has now been revealed to be Michael W. Trapp, 42, of Gouverneur&#8211;had radioed in saying he was having engine troubles.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, Mr. Trapp was the only person on the 2-seater plane&#8211;and we know this because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d9publicaffairs.com\/go\/doc\/443\/1148407\/\">he&#8217;s alive and in good condition<\/a>, and was able to confirm no one else was with\u00a0 him.<\/p>\n<p>A crew member on the fishing vessel Eagle&#8217;s Nest spotted him in the water about a half mile off Forestville, Mich., at about 10:30 this morning, and brought him aboard. He was transported to a hospital in Harbor Beach, Mich., and he&#8217;s doing fine.<\/p>\n<p>Now, why am I impressed? Because to reach the Eagle&#8217;s Nest, Mr. Trapp SWAM 15 MILES toward lights he spotted on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>His plane crashed about 17 miles east of Harbor Beach, and he swam towards land. For fifteen miles. After a plane crash. Maybe the repetition seems excessive, but I for one am having a little trouble getting my mind around how brave, focused and all-around, well, impressive this act was. Good for you Michael W. Trapp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s why I&#8217;m relieved: As of early this morning, the U.S. Coast Guard was searching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}