{"id":996,"date":"2008-07-03T04:19:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T11:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2008-07-03T04:35:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T11:35:04","slug":"philippoussis-gets-tore-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Philippoussis Gets Tore Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/200-markpoo-200x0-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/200-markpoo-200x0-1.jpg','popup','width=200,height=340,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\/07\/200-markpoo-200x0-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"170\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"200 Markpoo-200X0-1\" \/><\/a>According to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/tennis-ace-cheats-death-in-wild-surf-20080703-316k.html\">The Age<\/a><\/strong>, &#8220;former tennis star <strong>Mark Philippoussis<\/strong> was lucky to escape with his life after he paddled into wild seas off Victoria&#8217;s surf coast today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Philippoussis was dragged into an area known as the Valley and pummelled by waves until his board snapped. . . He managed to reach a cave, where he spent about two hours, apparently to wait until the tide dropped, while onlookers alerted his girlfriend who was in a nearby carpark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Locals apparently warned the Australian champ that he probably shouldn&#8217;t paddle out at Winkipop Beach, but he went anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/tennis-ace-cheats-death-in-wild-surf-20080703-316k.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Age, &#8220;former tennis star Mark Philippoussis was lucky to escape with his life after he paddled into wild seas off Victoria&#8217;s surf coast today.&#8221; Philippoussis was dragged into an area known as the Valley and pummelled by waves until his board snapped. . . He managed to reach a cave, where he [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}