{"id":30124,"date":"2012-04-19T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T17:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30124"},"modified":"2012-04-19T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T00:33:49","slug":"south-african-pro-bodyboarder-killed-by-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30124","title":{"rendered":"South African Pro Bodyboarder Killed By Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Sven.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Sven.jpg','popup','width=575,height=431,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\/2012\/04\/Sven-tm.jpg\" height=\"149\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sven\" \/><\/a>South African professional bodyboarder <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixty40.co.za\/profile\/1183\/david-lilienfeld\" target=\"_blank\">David Lilienfeld<\/a><\/strong>, 20, died while riding waves with his brother and some friends at Caves (Near <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsurfers.com\/spot.cfm?land=South%20Africa&amp;surfing=3080&amp;travel=Kogel%20Bay\" target=\"_blank\">Kogel Bay<\/a><\/strong>) after getting hit by a reportedly  four to five meter Great White shark, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/Promising-SA-bodyboarder-killed-in-shark-attack-20120419\" target=\"_blank\">News24.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lillienfield was brought ashore by bystanders and friends, but was confirmed dead at the scene by rescue personnel. . . Following the incident, witnesses claim that up to 6 sharks could be seen in the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with Lilienfeld&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/Promising-SA-bodyboarder-killed-in-shark-attack-20120419\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zigzag.co.za\/news\/enviro\/9005\/Fatal-Shark-Attack-at-Kogel-Baai-in-the-Boland\" target=\"_blank\">Zigzag<\/a><\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SurfingLife\/statuses\/193124798526791681\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing Life<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African professional bodyboarder David Lilienfeld, 20, died while riding waves with his brother and some friends at Caves (Near Kogel Bay) after getting hit by a reportedly four to five meter Great White shark, according to a story on News24.com. Lillienfield was brought ashore by bystanders and friends, but was confirmed dead at the [&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\/30124"}],"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=30124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30154,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30124\/revisions\/30154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}