{"id":22215,"date":"2011-03-14T14:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T22:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22215"},"modified":"2011-03-14T16:50:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T00:50:51","slug":"surfer-hit-midcutback-by-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22215","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Hit Midcutback By Shark?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/surfboard_t325.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/surfboard_t325.jpg','popup','width=325,height=243,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\/2011\/03\/surfboard_t325-tm.jpg\" height=\"149\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfboard T325\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Byron_Bay,_New_South_Wales\" target=\"_blank\">Byron Bay<\/a><\/strong>, Australia surfer <strong>Prem Puri<\/strong> had just dropped in on a perfectly little right and was setting up for cutback when something hit the tail of his board and stopped him dead in the water, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernstar.com.au\/story\/2011\/03\/15\/byron-surfers-close-call-prem-puri-surfer-shark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Star<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t see what it was, but there are definitely no rocks or anything around there where I was surfing,\u201d he said. . . \u201cI was doing a bottom-turn and something hit me and threw me off \u2013 it had to be something big.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When he came up the tail of his board was broken off and his foot was in pain. He&#8217;s still not exactly sure what exactly chomped him, but from the photographic evidence it looks an awful lot like the work of the gray suits, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernstar.com.au\/story\/2011\/03\/15\/byron-surfers-close-call-prem-puri-surfer-shark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Star<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Bay, Australia surfer Prem Puri had just dropped in on a perfectly little right and was setting up for cutback when something hit the tail of his board and stopped him dead in the water, according to a story in the Northern Star. \u201cI didn&#8217;t see what it was, but there are definitely no [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22218,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215\/revisions\/22218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}