{"id":29075,"date":"2012-03-15T07:41:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29075"},"modified":"2012-03-15T07:42:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:42:06","slug":"great-white-spotted-at-waddell-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29075","title":{"rendered":"Great White Spotted At Waddell Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifeguards at Santa Cruz, California&#8217;s Waddell Creek have posted warning signs advising surfers to stay out of the water after a Great White shark was observed attacking an elephant seal about 150 out on Sunday, March 11, 2012, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/localnews\/ci_20175789\/rangers-warn-shark-attack-seal-at-waddell-creek\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rangers determined the attack was not a &#8220;direct threat&#8221; to humans in part because it was outside the surf zone. As a precaution, they plan to keep the signs posted through the weekend. . . &#8220;It was a normal interaction with a seal and a shark,&#8221; said <strong>Terry Kaiser<\/strong>, supervising State Parks ranger for A\u00f1o Nuevo State Park. &#8220;It&#8217;s not uncommon for sharks to be in the area.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, it is not. But still, it would be difficult to walk past those signs and paddle out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/localnews\/ci_20175789\/rangers-warn-shark-attack-seal-at-waddell-creek\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifeguards at Santa Cruz, California&#8217;s Waddell Creek have posted warning signs advising surfers to stay out of the water after a Great White shark was observed attacking an elephant seal about 150 out on Sunday, March 11, 2012, according to a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Rangers determined the attack was not a &#8220;direct [&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\/29075"}],"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=29075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29077,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29075\/revisions\/29077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}