{"id":1787283,"date":"2022-12-26T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T20:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787283"},"modified":"2022-12-26T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T20:04:07","slug":"2022-man-of-the-year-james-michael-grimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2022-man-of-the-year-james-michael-grimes\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Man of the Year: James Michael Grimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2022-man-of-the-year-james-michael-grimes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787283&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Carnival Cruise Line ships are often referred to affectionately as &#8220;Carnival Ships Out to Sea&#8221;, because they were put out at sea by them. &#8220;Carnivore&#8221; Cruises are known for their floating bacchanals. &#8220;Choose fun,&#8221; The company informs its crew.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">James Michael Grimes took the company\u2019s advice as the Carnival Valor floated down to Cozumel, Mexico. The 28-year old Alabama native was having the best time of his adult life. He went a bit too far. In fact, it was a lot.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Grimes, Grimes&#8217; sister, told his sister that he was going for a quick trip to the toilet and would return shortly. He never returned.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Grimes claims he doesn&#8217;t remember what happened next. &#8220;When I came to, regained consciousness, I was in the water,&#8221; He told the story <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/carnival-overboard-passenger-cruise-ship-man-james-michael-grimes-abc-news\/12518369\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/9118ac6d1b6fc9a64bae460d374105b77a02fe4c?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fabc7news.com%252Fcarnival-cruise-passenger-who-went-overboard-speaks-out%252F12518369%252F%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3Dbfd465832305c673&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1671038159115000&#038;usg=AOvVaw084zJvqCKooysAh3FNAM-d\"><em>Good Morning America<\/em><\/a>. In fact, he doesn&#8217;t remember anything except winning an air guitar competition. But he didn\u2019t fret. He just kept swimming.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Grimes was in the Gulf of Mexico for 12 hours when his family reported him missing. Then he noticed something: &#8220;It had more like a flat mouth and came up and bumped one of my legs and I kicked it with the other leg. It scared me not knowing what it was.&#8221; He refers to it in this way: &#8220;A sea creature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Grimes said that GMA needs sustenance. &#8220;A stick come floatin\u2019 by. It looked like bamboo. So I started eatin\u2019 on it, and it actually\u2014I\u2019m not gonna say it tasted good but it gave some type of flavor in my mouth other than saltwater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It took the Coast Guard another six hours to find their missing man, who was swimming toward a tanker\u2014the search radius was 7,000 square miles. &#8220;The Lord was with me,&#8221; Grimes said that he was able to climb aboard rescue litter with every ounce of energy he had. He was also naked.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Grimes admits he drank during the day\u2014he earned a free drink for his victory in the air guitar competition. Grimes responded to GMA&#8217;s inquiry about how many drinks. &#8220;I couldn\u2019t really say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He keeps his head above the water, fights off sea creatures, is an air guitar champion and wants to go on another cruise &#8220;because I really didn&#8217;t get to go on this one,&#8221; James Michael Grimes is an author. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Man of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ships put out to sea by the Carnival Cruise Line, referred to lovingly by some as &#8220;Carnivore&#8221; cruises, have a reputation for being floating bacchanals. &#8220;Choose fun,&#8221; the company tells its cruisers.<br \/>\nThe post 2022 Man of The Year: James Michael Grimes appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1787286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[8499,6962,3990,4092,4089,11904,5334,5177,5734],"class_list":["post-1787283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-man","tag-the","tag-3990","tag-beacon","tag-free","tag-grimes","tag-james","tag-michael","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}