{"id":29694,"date":"2012-04-05T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29694"},"modified":"2012-04-05T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:44:04","slug":"north-shore-surfer-punches-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29694","title":{"rendered":"North Shore Surfer Punches Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/global\/video\/videoplayer.js?rnd=696599;hostDomain=www.hawaiinewsnow.com;playerWidth=450;playerHeight=259;isShowIcon=true;clipId=6907815;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=false;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay;galleryType=wnstory;galleryId=17326200'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>North Shore surfer <strong>Joshua Holley<\/strong>, 28, survived  shark attack on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, while paddling in the channel between Aligator Rock and Leftovers when what is believed to be a 10-foot Tiger shark hit him on the left leg, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/story\/17326200\/shark-bites-north-shore-surfer-beaches-closed\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii News Now<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said the shark bit his left foot and then started swimming to the front of the board. . . &#8220;Survival mode kicked in and I punched it really hard once and then twice. I didn&#8217;t want to panic or go into shock or anything like that,&#8221; said Holley. . . &#8220;You gotta go for something vulnerable like the eyes or the gills or the snout and that usually does the trick,&#8221; said state shark specialist Randy Honebrink. . . Holley paddled in and two strangers helped him to shore. Medics took him to Wahiawa General Hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Holley received 42 stitches and will have to go back for more surgery to repair two severed tendons, but we&#8217;re all glad he&#8217;s alive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/story\/17326200\/shark-bites-north-shore-surfer-beaches-closed\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii News Now<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Shore surfer Joshua Holley, 28, survived shark attack on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, while paddling in the channel between Aligator Rock and Leftovers when what is believed to be a 10-foot Tiger shark hit him on the left leg, according to a story on Hawaii News Now. He said the shark bit his left [&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":[13,6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29694"}],"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=29694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29696,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29694\/revisions\/29696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}