{"id":18028,"date":"2026-05-23T16:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=18028"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:31:31","slug":"never-before-seen-footage-shows-attempts-to-rescue-caver-who-died-worst-death-imaginable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=18028","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Never-before-seen\u2019 footage shows attempts to rescue caver who died \u2018worst death imaginable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story of John Edward Jones is a tragic reminder of how quickly adventure can turn deadly. What started as a cave outing became a nightmare after he took a wrong turn and became trapped deep inside Nutty Putty Cave. For over a day, rescuers fought through tight, dangerous passages trying to save him as his condition worsened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite desperate efforts with ropes, pulleys, and rescue systems, a critical failure caused him to slip even deeper into the cave. In the end, rescuers were forced to seal the cave permanently, leaving his body inside. His story remains both a warning about the dangers of caving and a haunting example of how fragile survival can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of John Edward Jones is a tragic reminder of how quickly adventure can turn deadly. What started as a cave outing became a nightmare after he took a wrong turn and became trapped deep inside Nutty Putty Cave. For over a day, rescuers fought through tight, dangerous passages trying to save him as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18030,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18028\/revisions\/18030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}