{"id":11720,"date":"2009-11-18T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T03:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11720"},"modified":"2009-11-18T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T03:47:25","slug":"carpark-lurking-snake-bites-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11720","title":{"rendered":"Carpark Lurking Snake Bites Surfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/644351.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/644351.jpg','popup','width=300,height=214,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/644351-tm.jpg\" height=\"142\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"644351\" \/><\/a>A 27-year-old surfer in New South Wales, Australia had finished surfing at The Farm, and was up in the car park when he was bitten on the right leg by a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red-bellied_Black_Snake\" target=\"_blank\">red-bellied black snake<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the Illawarra Mercury.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A witness said the man&#8217;s surfboard was on the ground and, when he went to pick it up, the snake emerged from beneath it and bit him. . . . Ambulance officers applied a tourniquet to the man&#8217;s leg and took him to Wollongong Hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sharks and snakes? Damn, Australian surfers will put up with almost anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illawarramercury.com.au\/news\/local\/news\/general\/snake-bites-surfer-at-killalea-state-park\/1682088.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Illawarra Mercury<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old surfer in New South Wales, Australia had finished surfing at The Farm, and was up in the car park when he was bitten on the right leg by a red-bellied black snake, according to a story in the Illawarra Mercury. A witness said the man&#8217;s surfboard was on the ground and, when he [&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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720"}],"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=11720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11721,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720\/revisions\/11721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}