{"id":13897,"date":"2010-02-10T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T05:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13897"},"modified":"2010-02-10T21:34:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T05:34:32","slug":"shark-hits-sydney-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13897","title":{"rendered":"Shark Hits Sydney Surfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/3317152.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/3317152.jpg','popup','width=618,height=360,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\/2010\/02\/3317152-tm.jpg\" height=\"116\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"3317152\" \/><\/a>Mona Vale, Australia surfer <strong>Paul Welsh<\/strong>, 46, was &#8220;having a surf&#8221; with his young son at Basin Bay when &#8220;a small shark&#8221; hit him from below, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/world\/australia\/3316992\/Surfer-bitten-in-Sydney-shark-attack\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff.co.nz<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He made it out of the water and his wife drove him to Mona Vale Hospital, where he is recovering well, a NSW Health spokesman said. . . &#8220;He&#8217;ll be out of hospital by the end of the day.&#8221; . . &#8220;I was pushing my son on to waves and it just belted [me],&#8221; the man told the paper. &#8220;I grabbed on to the pinnacle of a rock and held on as it tried to drag me out &#8230; and I won.&#8221; . . .The victim has signed an exclusive deal with Channel Nine, a NSW Health spokeswoman said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exclusive deal? Guess if you&#8217;re going to be news you might as well get paid for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/world\/australia\/3316992\/Surfer-bitten-in-Sydney-shark-attack\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff.co.nz<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mona Vale, Australia surfer Paul Welsh, 46, was &#8220;having a surf&#8221; with his young son at Basin Bay when &#8220;a small shark&#8221; hit him from below, according to a story on Stuff.co.nz. He made it out of the water and his wife drove him to Mona Vale Hospital, where he is recovering well, a NSW [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897"}],"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=13897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13898,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions\/13898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}