{"id":1566,"date":"2008-09-03T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T22:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2008-09-03T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T22:40:06","slug":"taj-burrow-a-real-lifesaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1566","title":{"rendered":"Taj Burrow A Real Lifesaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong>Grant Boxall<\/strong> broke his neck surfing Western Australia, it was <strong>Taj Burrow<\/strong> who pulled him out. Boxall, who is now a paralympic rugby player in Bejing tells the whole story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/sport\/surfer-proves-a-real-lifesaver\/2008\/09\/03\/1220121332435.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I went straight down and heard a crunch. I managed to get a few yells of help out. I tried to move my legs but nothing was happening. All the pain was in my head. I&#8217;d smashed it open. I was going under. I was panicking, it was all happening so quick. . . . Next thing I knew, this hand grabbed the scruff of my neck, or the back of my wettie, and ripped me back up. I was gulping air. It was Taj who grabbed me. He was saying, &#8216;Get on my board, try to get on my board.&#8217; I was like, &#8216;I can&#8217;t, I can&#8217;t.&#8217; It was just mayhem.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Boxtall, who thought he was dying, was taken to the hospital by Taj and the boys. He&#8217;s been in a wheelchair since, but now he&#8217;s in the paralympics. All thanks to Taj.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/sport\/surfer-proves-a-real-lifesaver\/2008\/09\/03\/1220121332435.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Grant Boxall broke his neck surfing Western Australia, it was Taj Burrow who pulled him out. Boxall, who is now a paralympic rugby player in Bejing tells the whole story in the Sydney Morning Herald. I went straight down and heard a crunch. I managed to get a few yells of help out. I [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"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=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}