{"id":916,"date":"2008-06-20T08:03:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2008-06-20T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T17:11:36","slug":"like-a-bear-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":". . . Like A Bear Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/40152120.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/40152120.jpg','popup','width=500,height=361,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\/2008\/06\/40152120-tm.jpg\" height=\"144\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"40152120\" \/><\/a>From the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-sharks19-2008jun19,0,849527.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bruce Grimes<\/strong> gingerly clenches his stitched right hand, asserting as best he can that he was accompanied by angels the morning a large bull shark chomped &#8220;softly&#8221; on his arm as he paddled his surfboard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could feel the inside of its mouth with my hand,&#8221; he says while sitting on a small wooden stool inside his downtown surf shop. &#8220;It was steely, all hard inside, like a bear trap.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the link for the rest of the story from a Zihuatanejo surf survivor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-sharks19-2008jun19,0,849527.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the LA Times: Bruce Grimes gingerly clenches his stitched right hand, asserting as best he can that he was accompanied by angels the morning a large bull shark chomped &#8220;softly&#8221; on his arm as he paddled his surfboard. &#8220;I could feel the inside of its mouth with my hand,&#8221; he says while sitting on [&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\/916"}],"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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}