{"id":62870,"date":"2020-05-11T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=62870"},"modified":"2020-05-11T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:55:05","slug":"santa-cruz-shaper-ben-kelly-killed-by-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=62870","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz Shaper Ben Kelly Killed By Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/286252115\" width=\"450\" height=\"265\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">&amp;amp;lt;span data-mce-type=&#8221;bookmark&#8221; style=&#8221;display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;&#8221; class=&#8221;mce_SELRES_start&#8221;&amp;amp;gt;\ufeff&amp;amp;lt;\/span&amp;amp;gt;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2020\/05\/10\/fatal-shark-attack-ben-kelly-santa-surf-community-mourns\/\"><strong>Santa Cruz surf community is in mourning<\/strong><\/a> as word spread that the surfer killed by a shark&nbsp;Saturday, May 9, 2020 &nbsp;at Manresa State Beach in Santa Cruz County was 26-year-old <strong>Ben Kelly<\/strong>, owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benkellysurfboards.com\"><strong>Ben Kelly Surfboards<\/strong><\/a>, according to a story in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/2020\/05\/10\/santa-cruz-surfer-killed-in-shark-attack-identified\/\"><em><strong>Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Saturday, <strong>Gabe McKenna<\/strong>, public safety superintendent with California State Parks, said a person flagged down a lifeguard patrolling the area to report the attack. . .&nbsp;The water 1 mile south and 1 mile north of the attack will be closed for five days, until Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the first fatal shark attack in California since October 23, 2012 when <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_fatal_shark_attacks_in_California\"><strong>a surfer at Surf Beach in Santa Barbara County<\/strong><\/a> was killed by a Great White shark.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/2020\/05\/10\/santa-cruz-surfer-killed-in-shark-attack-identified\/\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&amp;amp;lt;span data-mce-type=&#8221;bookmark&#8221; style=&#8221;display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;&#8221; class=&#8221;mce_SELRES_start&#8221;&amp;amp;gt;\ufeff&amp;amp;lt;\/span&amp;amp;gt; The Santa Cruz surf community is in mourning as word spread that the surfer killed by a shark&nbsp;Saturday, May 9, 2020 &nbsp;at Manresa State Beach in Santa Cruz County was 26-year-old Ben Kelly, owner of Ben Kelly Surfboards, according to a story in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/62870"}],"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=62870"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62876,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62870\/revisions\/62876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}