{"id":67314,"date":"2024-10-18T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/18\/australian-craig-laidley-body-found-bali-saving-german-tourist-drowning-balian-beach"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:20:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:20:15","slug":"body-of-hero-australian-found-two-days-after-saving-german-tourist-from-drowning-in-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67314","title":{"rendered":"Body of \u2018hero\u2019 Australian found two days after saving German tourist from drowning in Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses said Craig Laidley had almost reached safety when a wave dragged the 56-year-old back into heavy seas <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2024\/oct\/18\/australia-news-live-northern-territory-lowers-age-of-criminal-responsibility-royal-tour-king-charles-queen-camilla\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friends and family of Australian man Craig Laidley have paid tribute to a \u201chero\u201d who drowned saving someone he didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>His body was found in Bali on Friday, two days after he was swept out to sea while assisting a struggling swimmer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/18\/australian-craig-laidley-body-found-bali-saving-german-tourist-drowning-balian-beach\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses said Craig Laidley had almost reached safety when a wave dragged the 56-year-old back into heavy seas Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFriends and family of Austr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,413,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-bali","category-indonesia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67315,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67314\/revisions\/67315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}