{"id":19538,"date":"2010-11-12T06:56:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19538"},"modified":"2010-11-12T06:59:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T14:59:31","slug":"surfing-dick-van-dyke-saved-by-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19538","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Dick Van Dyke Saved By Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dickvandyke.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dickvandyke.jpg','popup','width=468,height=308,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\/11\/dickvandyke-tm.jpg\" height=\"131\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dickvandyke\" \/><\/a>Eighty-four year-old actor <strong>Dick Van Dyke<\/strong> was reportedly surfing in Virginia Beach on his 10 foot longboard when he fell asleep on his board and drifted out to sea, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1328806\/Dick-Van-Dyke-Pod-porpoises-saved-I-fell-asleep-surfboard.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;I went out once and fell asleep on that board and I woke up out of sight of land,&#8217; said Van Dyke, the star of Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. . . &#8216;And I looked around and I started paddling with the swells, and I started seeing fins swimming around me. I thought, &#8220;I&#8217;m dead&#8221;.&#8217; . . &#8216;They turned out to be porpoises. They pushed me all the way to shore &#8211; I&#8217;m not kidding.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, dolphins are bigger fans of 60s TV than scientists originally thought.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1328806\/Dick-Van-Dyke-Pod-porpoises-saved-I-fell-asleep-surfboard.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty-four year-old actor Dick Van Dyke was reportedly surfing in Virginia Beach on his 10 foot longboard when he fell asleep on his board and drifted out to sea, according to a story in the Daily Mail. &#8216;I went out once and fell asleep on that board and I woke up out of sight of [&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\/19538"}],"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=19538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19541,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions\/19541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}