{"id":15442,"date":"2010-04-13T14:51:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15442"},"modified":"2010-04-13T14:51:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:51:29","slug":"south-african-surfer-wrestles-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15442","title":{"rendered":"South African Surfer Wrestles Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brendan Denton<\/strong>, 35, was surfing at South Africa&#8217;s East Beach in the southeastern town of Port Alfred on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, when he felt something &#8220;pulling him underwater&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africasia.com\/services\/news\/newsitem.php?area=africa&amp;item=100413145209.r3pwvl39.php\" target=\"_blank\">Africasia.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He thought it might be his friend playing the fool with him,&#8221; police captain <strong>Mali Govender<\/strong> told Sapa. . . The second time it happened, Denton turned around and saw his feet in the shark&#8217;s jaws, Govender said. . . Denton wrestled with the shark and managed to get back on his surfboard and paddle to safety, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Denton escaped with &#8220;serious injuries&#8221; and his life. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africasia.com\/services\/news\/newsitem.php?area=africa&amp;item=100413145209.r3pwvl39.php\" target=\"_blank\">Africasia.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Denton, 35, was surfing at South Africa&#8217;s East Beach in the southeastern town of Port Alfred on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, when he felt something &#8220;pulling him underwater&#8221; according to a story on Africasia.com. &#8220;He thought it might be his friend playing the fool with him,&#8221; police captain Mali Govender told Sapa. . . [&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\/15442"}],"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=15442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15443,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions\/15443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}