{"id":18481,"date":"2010-10-01T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18481"},"modified":"2010-10-01T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:59:16","slug":"shark-nips-south-african-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18481","title":{"rendered":"Shark Nips South African Surfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage surfer at South Africa&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southafrica.com\/beaches\/western-cape\/melkbaai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melkbaai beach<\/a><\/strong> was bitten on the foot Friday (October 1, 2010), according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.iafrica.com\/sa\/677314.html\" target=\"_blank\">iAfrica.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, the surfer, who appeared to be a teenager, had relatively minor injuries to his foot. . . He had three deep lacerations, penetrating to the bone, and had lost blood. . . He was treated on the spot and en route to hospital, Visser said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sharks appear to come closer to shore around the Cape this time of year, according to the story. This time a little too close.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.iafrica.com\/sa\/677314.html\" target=\"_blank\">iAfrica.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage surfer at South Africa&#8217;s Melkbaai beach was bitten on the foot Friday (October 1, 2010), according to a story on iAfrica.com. However, the surfer, who appeared to be a teenager, had relatively minor injuries to his foot. . . He had three deep lacerations, penetrating to the bone, and had lost blood. . [&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\/18481"}],"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=18481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18483,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481\/revisions\/18483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}