{"id":23755,"date":"2011-07-21T20:58:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=23755"},"modified":"2011-07-21T20:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:58:35","slug":"motz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/motz\/","title":{"rendered":"Drowning at Motz Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton County&#8217;s newest park, Motz Park in Greenbush Township<!--more-->, suffered its first fatality on Sunday afternoon, July 17 when an Owosso man drowned while trying to swim across the lake.<br \/>\nBilly Lee Loburg, 43, was at the beach with his daughter and friends when he decided to attempt the crossing.  The victim was about two-thirds of the way across the 300-yard lake when he began struggling. Although others nearby were ready to assist almost immediately, they were not able to revive him.<br \/>\nLoburg was transported to Sparrow Clinton Hospital in St. Johns where he was pronounced dead.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the first drowning ever reported at Motz Park, which opened last year, and the first in the county this year, according to Sheriff Wayne Kangas.<br \/>\nClinton County Deputies were assisted by the St. Johns Police Department, Clinton Area Fire and Rescue, Clinton Area Ambulance and Clinton County Central Dispatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton County&#8217;s newest park, Motz Park in Greenbush Township<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}