{"id":7738,"date":"2009-05-04T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T16:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7738"},"modified":"2009-05-04T13:13:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T20:13:41","slug":"its-shark-season-in-zihuatanejo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7738","title":{"rendered":"Is It Shark Season In Zihuatanejo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/zihuatan.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/zihuatan.jpg','popup','width=500,height=333,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\/2009\/05\/zihuatan-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Zihuatan\" \/><\/a>Mainland Mexico surf tourism has its work cut out for it this year. As if swine flu isn&#8217;t enough of a deterant, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/outposts\/2009\/05\/zihuatanejo-surfers-hope-last-mays-deadly-sharkattack-spree-was-a-fluke-.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> action blogger <strong>Pete Thomas<\/strong> reminds everyone that last May two surfers were killed by sharks and another had his hand ripped up while surfing in Zihuatanejo. .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The attacks, which occurred within a three-week period, generated &#8220;Jaws&#8221;-like mania and led to the erection of lifeguard towers and establishment of a shark patrol along a stretch of coastline that seasonally lures hundreds of surfers from Southern California and elsewhere. . . .Now it&#8217;s May once more and some might be wondering whether the phenomenon will be repeated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We know one thing for sure: we won&#8217;t be going down to check that out any time soon. . . cough, couch. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/outposts\/2009\/05\/zihuatanejo-surfers-hope-last-mays-deadly-sharkattack-spree-was-a-fluke-.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainland Mexico surf tourism has its work cut out for it this year. As if swine flu isn&#8217;t enough of a deterant, LA Times action blogger Pete Thomas reminds everyone that last May two surfers were killed by sharks and another had his hand ripped up while surfing in Zihuatanejo. . The attacks, which occurred [&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\/7738"}],"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=7738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7746,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions\/7746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}