{"id":16710,"date":"2010-07-09T06:35:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T13:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16710"},"modified":"2010-07-09T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T14:04:44","slug":"texas-surfer-gets-shark-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16710","title":{"rendered":"Texas Surfer Gets Shark Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galeston, Texas surfer <strong>Chad Rogers<\/strong>, 20, never expected to get bitten by a shark, according to a story in the Galveston News. But that didn&#8217;t stop what he believes to be a 5 foot bullshark from getting a bite in.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen I pulled my foot out, I was bleeding all over the place,\u201d Rogers said in an interview with YourTownTV.com. \u201cI was kind of freaking out. I never thought I would get bitten by a shark. . . \u201cAfter that, we had a race to get (to shore.) I just remember getting bit and trying to get the hell out of the water.\u201d . . . Rogers said in addition to a large gash, he had \u201cnibble marks\u201d from the shark on his toes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rogers used his other foot to push the shark away and then hopped a quarter mile to his car. The surfers foot now has between 50 and 60 stitches on it, but other than that he&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galvnews.com\/story\/161726\" target=\"_blank\">Galveston News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galeston, Texas surfer Chad Rogers, 20, never expected to get bitten by a shark, according to a story in the Galveston News. But that didn&#8217;t stop what he believes to be a 5 foot bullshark from getting a bite in. \u201cWhen I pulled my foot out, I was bleeding all over the place,\u201d Rogers said [&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\/16710"}],"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=16710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16717,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710\/revisions\/16717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}