{"id":2011,"date":"2008-10-03T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2008-10-03T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T17:23:03","slug":"fins-to-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"Fins To The Left . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/surfer-shark-1003384c.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/surfer-shark-1003384c.jpg','popup','width=460,height=288,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\/2008\/10\/surfer-shark-1003384c-tm.jpg\" height=\"125\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfer-Shark 1003384C\" \/><\/a>When Irish surfer <strong>Fergal Smith<\/strong>, 21 of County Mayo caught and epic left while surfing two miles off the coast of Perth, Western Australia he had no idea that a great white was shadowing him down the wave. <\/p>\n<p>Only after looking at one of <strong>Phil Gallagher&#8217;s <\/strong>photos did he see that there was a lot more than glassy face on his wave: like a huge great white shark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Contributors to Australia&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfinglife.com.au\/cms\/index.php?option=com_frontpage&amp;Itemid=1\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing Life<\/a><\/strong> magazine have awarded the Irishman the &#8220;Euro surf-dude of the month&#8221; award. . . . Its website read: &#8220;Just imagine being in the barrel and looking at a massive shark like you&#8217;re at the bloody aquarium or something. . . . &#8220;Hats off to you Fergal Smith, you&#8217;re our Euro surf-dude of the month.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One more reminder why surfing West Oz really is the wild, wild, west.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/australiaandthepacific\/australia\/3129352\/Surfers-close-shave-with-Great-White-shark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Irish surfer Fergal Smith, 21 of County Mayo caught and epic left while surfing two miles off the coast of Perth, Western Australia he had no idea that a great white was shadowing him down the wave. Only after looking at one of Phil Gallagher&#8217;s photos did he see that there was a lot [&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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011"}],"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=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}