{"id":8189,"date":"2009-05-19T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T18:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8189"},"modified":"2009-05-19T11:01:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T18:01:47","slug":"aussie-shark-survivor-wants-back-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8189","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Shark Survivor Wants Back In The Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/aussie-shark.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/aussie-shark.jpg','popup','width=301,height=169,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\/aussie-shark-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Aussie Shark\" \/><\/a>What is it about being attacked by a shark that makes people want to get right back in the water? <strong>Glenn Orgias<\/strong>, the Australian surfer who lost his left hand to a 2.5 meter great white while surfing at Bondi Beach, has spent his downtime working as an Australian Red Cross Blood Service ambassador but he&#8217;s looking forward to going surfing again, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-national\/mauled-surfer-wants-to-get-back-on-board-20090519-be55.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He told the Seven Network he hopes to receive a prosthetic hand but it won&#8217;t be waterproof, forcing him to improvise when he gets back on a surfboard. . . .&#8221;Yeah, I&#8217;m not sure how to push up on the board yet and hopefully I can get back on and get up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tough man, Glenn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-national\/mauled-surfer-wants-to-get-back-on-board-20090519-be55.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about being attacked by a shark that makes people want to get right back in the water? Glenn Orgias, the Australian surfer who lost his left hand to a 2.5 meter great white while surfing at Bondi Beach, has spent his downtime working as an Australian Red Cross Blood Service ambassador but [&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\/8189"}],"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=8189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8190,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}