{"id":84364,"date":"2025-09-25T07:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/84364\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:26:08","slug":"post-photographer-hopes-viral-ragasa-man-on-bench-image-warns-against-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/84364\/","title":{"rendered":"Post photographer hopes viral Ragasa man-on-bench image warns against danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Post photographer Elson Li did not expect to see anyone when he arrived at the Tseung Kwan O promenade, where raging waves were crashing into the coast as Super Typhoon Ragasa reached its closest point to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But a man sitting alone on a bench facing the sea, with the Tseung Kwan O Cross Bay Bridge in the background, caught his eye.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was 6.30am on Wednesday, when the highest-level No 10 hurricane warning signal was in force.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At that time, waves reaching up to two-thirds the height of the 17-metre-tall (56-foot) Tseung Kwan O Cross Bay Link kept crashing into the coast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A wave sweeps the man on the bench off his feet during Ragasa. Photo: Elson Li\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f3df3593-5b17-4cc3-9a7a-f3ed4169f351_aef15115.jpg\" title=\"A wave sweeps the man on the bench off his feet during Ragasa. Photo: Elson Li\"\/>A wave sweeps the man on the bench off his feet during Ragasa. Photo: Elson Li<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As he was trying to figure out how to call out to the man, Li snapped away as he walked to a wall 10 metres behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post photographer Elson Li did not expect to see anyone when he arrived at the Tseung Kwan O&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,55944,117,55945,55943,4202,55956,19,17,55950,55955,55948,55952,55947,55954,55949,55951,55953,55946],"class_list":{"0":"post-84364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-elson-li","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-eugene-lee","17":"tag-hang-fa-chuen","18":"tag-hong-kong","19":"tag-hong-kong-gag","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-jojo-wu","23":"tag-karma-lo","24":"tag-lei-yue-mun","25":"tag-ma-wan-village","26":"tag-post-photographer","27":"tag-sam-tsang","28":"tag-super-typhoon-ragasa","29":"tag-tai-o","30":"tag-tseung-kwan-o","31":"tag-tseung-kwan-o-cross-bay-link"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}