{"id":48447,"date":"2015-04-27T18:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T01:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48447"},"modified":"2015-04-27T18:40:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T01:40:48","slug":"aussie-surfer-loses-leg-to-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48447","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Surfer Loses Leg To Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/431596-surfer-critical-after-sa-shark-attack.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/431596-surfer-critical-after-sa-shark-attack.jpg','popup','width=316,height=237,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\/2015\/04\/431596-surfer-critical-after-sa-shark-attack-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"431596-Surfer-Critical-After-Sa-Shark-Attack\" \/><\/a><strong>Christopher Blowes<\/strong>, 26-year-old surfer, was hit by a great white shark while surfing at Fishery Bay in South Australia&#8217;s Port Lincoln National Park on Saturday, April 25, 2015, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/breaking-news\/no-expansion-to-shark-diving-in-sa\/story-e6frfku9-1227323236216\">news.com.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Witnesses described how the shark swam off with one of the surfer&#8217;s legs still attached to the surfboard&#8217;s leg rope. . . Mr Blowes was airlifted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital and a spokesman said Monday he remained in a critical condition in intensive care. . . In a statement released by the hospital, the surfer&#8217;s family said they were extremely grateful for the community support they had received.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We wish him a solid recovery. For the rest of the story, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/breaking-news\/no-expansion-to-shark-diving-in-sa\/story-e6frfku9-1227323236216\">click the link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/breaking-news\/no-expansion-to-shark-diving-in-sa\/story-e6frfku9-1227323236216\">News.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Blowes, 26-year-old surfer, was hit by a great white shark while surfing at Fishery Bay in South Australia&#8217;s Port Lincoln National Park on Saturday, April 25, 2015, according to a story on news.com.au. Witnesses described how the shark swam off with one of the surfer&#8217;s legs still attached to the surfboard&#8217;s leg rope. . [&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\/48447"}],"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=48447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48448,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48447\/revisions\/48448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}