{"id":11503,"date":"2009-11-07T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T15:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11503"},"modified":"2010-09-21T17:17:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T00:17:46","slug":"geiselman-kicks-a-great-white-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11503","title":{"rendered":"Geiselman Kicks A Great White Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"430\" height=\"235\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7482850&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7482850&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"430\" height=\"235\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>How would you react after a shark bit your board in half while you were sitting on it? This is how <strong>Eric Geiselman<\/strong> handled his interaction with what may have been a Great White while surfing near Santa Cruz, California on November 5, 2009.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eric was out the back all-alone after his brother, <strong>Evan Geiselman<\/strong>, caught a wave in. Amidst the commotion, his foot hit the creature as he began paddling the remnants of his board toward shore. \u201cIt\u2019s nuts to think how helpless you are,\u201d said a rattled Geiselman to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/surf.transworld.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">TransWorld SURF\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Aaron Checkwood<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing like kicking a shark while paddling half a surfboard back to shore. . .<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/video\/featured-clips\/eric-geiselmans-shark-encounter_32974\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/strong> to hear Eric tell the whole story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/surf.transworld.net\/features\/eric-geiselmans-great-white-shark-scare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Surf<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/video\/featured-clips\/eric-geiselmans-shark-encounter_32974\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you react after a shark bit your board in half while you were sitting on it? This is how Eric Geiselman handled his interaction with what may have been a Great White while surfing near Santa Cruz, California on November 5, 2009. Eric was out the back all-alone after his brother, Evan Geiselman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17998,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503\/revisions\/17998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}