{"id":47763,"date":"2024-07-15T17:52:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=47763"},"modified":"2024-07-15T17:52:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:52:23","slug":"kayaker-found-dead-on-lake-annie-in-waverly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/07\/15\/kayaker-found-dead-on-lake-annie-in-waverly\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaker found dead on Lake Annie in Waverly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 40-year-old kayaker from Lake Wales was found dead on Lake Annie in Waverly early Monday morning after friends tried to search for him and reported him missing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"828c88\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #828c88;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Polk-County-Kayak.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47764 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Polk-County-Kayak.webp 600w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Polk-County-Kayak-300x228.webp 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a news release that Shane Park, 40, of Lake Wales went out on the lake at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday. About 5 p.m., friends took to the water to look for him, the Sheriff&#8217;s Office said, and eventually found his overturned kayak. They reported him missing at 3:30 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boats from the Sheriff&#8217;s Office and Polk County Fire Rescue were launched, and they found Park&#8217;s body floating in the lake. He was taken to the Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office for an autopsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lake Annie is a 407-acre lake south of Dundee and north of Lake Wales, nestled between State Road 17 and U.S. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 40-year-old kayaker from Lake Wales was found dead on Lake Annie in Waverly early Monday morning after friends tried to search for him and reported him missing. The Polk&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":47764,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Polk-County-Kayak.webp","type":"image\/webp"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[9129],"class_list":["post-47763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kayaker-found-dead-on-lake-annie-in-waverly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47765,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47763\/revisions\/47765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}