{"id":18825,"date":"2010-10-18T07:29:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18825"},"modified":"2010-10-18T07:29:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T14:29:35","slug":"shark-survivor-surfs-again-with-robot-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18825","title":{"rendered":"Shark Survivor Surfs Again With Robot Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Paul-deGelder-420x0.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Paul-deGelder-420x0.jpg','popup','width=420,height=253,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\/10\/Paul-deGelder-420x0-tm.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Paul-Degelder-420X0\" \/><\/a><strong>Paul de Gelder<\/strong>, the Royal Australian Navy diver who lost a hand and leg to a bull shark during training exercises in Sydney Harbour, is back on a surfboard thanks to his new leg, according to a story from <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/entertainment\/tv-and-radio\/shark-victim-rides-again-20101016-16oaz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once he had recovered from his wounds, Mr de Gelder returned to the waves on the northern beaches close to his Collaroy home. . . &#8220;I love being in the water. I wasn&#8217;t going to let the shark attack keep me out of the water,&#8221; said Mr de Gelder, who recently returned from New York where he and other shark attack victims lobbied the United Nations to curtail fishing practices that threaten sharks with extinction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>de Gelder is a bad ass, no doubt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/entertainment\/tv-and-radio\/shark-victim-rides-again-20101016-16oaz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul de Gelder, the Royal Australian Navy diver who lost a hand and leg to a bull shark during training exercises in Sydney Harbour, is back on a surfboard thanks to his new leg, according to a story from Washington Today. Once he had recovered from his wounds, Mr de Gelder returned to the waves [&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\/18825"}],"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=18825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18826,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18825\/revisions\/18826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}