{"id":27906,"date":"2012-01-18T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27906"},"modified":"2012-01-18T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:35:39","slug":"australian-surfer-survives-shark-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27906","title":{"rendered":"Australian Surfer Survives Shark Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/art-Shark-420x0.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/art-Shark-420x0.jpg','popup','width=420,height=273,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\/2012\/01\/art-Shark-420x0-tm.jpg\" height=\"130\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Art-Shark-420X0\" \/><\/a><strong>Glen &#8220;Lenny&#8221; Folkard<\/strong>, a 44-year-old surfer was &#8220;dragged from his board and mauled&#8221; by a seven foot long shark on Wednesday, Janaury 18, 2012 while surfing Australia&#8217;s <strong>Redhead Beach<\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/animals\/surfer-paddles-back-to-shore-after-serious-shark-attack-20120118-1q6k8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 100 people were in the water when the shark attacked. Witnesses in the surf said Mr Folkard was lying on his board about 20 metros from a large group of surfers when the shark struck about 4.40pm. . . Believed to be a bull shark, it took a large chunk out of Mr Folkard\u2019s thigh as well as his board before dragging him underwater, witnesses said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After Folkard got free he was able to surface where other surfers reportedly helped him catch a wave in. The man is currently in stable condition with a &#8220;deep wound to an upper thigh. For the rest of the story <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/animals\/surfer-paddles-back-to-shore-after-serious-shark-attack-20120118-1q6k8.html\" target=\"_blank\">click the link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/animals\/surfer-paddles-back-to-shore-after-serious-shark-attack-20120118-1q6k8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen &#8220;Lenny&#8221; Folkard, a 44-year-old surfer was &#8220;dragged from his board and mauled&#8221; by a seven foot long shark on Wednesday, Janaury 18, 2012 while surfing Australia&#8217;s Redhead Beach, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald. More than 100 people were in the water when the shark attacked. Witnesses in the surf said [&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\/27906"}],"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=27906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27908,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27906\/revisions\/27908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}