{"id":26238,"date":"2011-10-30T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T21:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26238"},"modified":"2011-10-30T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T23:53:33","slug":"monterey-surfer-survives-great-white-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26238","title":{"rendered":"Monterey Surfer Survives Great White Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111029_011226_Shark102911_11_GALLERY.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111029_011226_Shark102911_11_GALLERY.jpg','popup','width=325,height=400,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\/2011\/10\/20111029_011226_Shark102911_11_GALLERY-tm.jpg\" height=\"246\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20111029 011226 Shark102911 1(1) Gallery\" \/><\/a>Eric Tarantino, 27, is lucky to be alive after getting his by a shark while surfing at Marina State Beach near Monterey, California at about 7 AM on Saturday, October 29, 2011, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/local\/ci_19227680\" target=\"_blank\">Monterey County Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tarantino. . . was bitten along the right side of his body by a shark that took a 19-inch chunk from his red surfboard. He had wounds on his neck, shoulder, wrist and forearm, witnesses said. . . Dana M. Jones, Monterey Sector superintendent for the California Department of Parks and Recreation, said his injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Eric-Tarantino-Recovering-From-Shark-Attack--132879948.html\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Bay Area<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>San Jose surgeons operated on Tarantino for two hours Saturday to repair injuries to the muscles in his neck. . . Dr. Michael Gynn said he was lucky, because the shark missed all major vessels. Gynn said Tarantino is expected to make a full recover, adding he was awake and alert by Saturday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to the quick work of Tarantino&#8217;s friend Brandon McKibben and people on the beach Tarantino made it out of this one alive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/local\/ci_19227680\" target=\"_blank\">Monterey County Herald<\/a><\/strong> <strong>and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Eric-Tarantino-Recovering-From-Shark-Attack--132879948.html\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Bay Area<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Tarantino, 27, is lucky to be alive after getting his by a shark while surfing at Marina State Beach near Monterey, California at about 7 AM on Saturday, October 29, 2011, according to a story in the Monterey County Herald. Tarantino. . . was bitten along the right side of his body by a [&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\/26238"}],"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=26238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26239,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238\/revisions\/26239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}