{"id":30180,"date":"2012-04-20T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30180"},"modified":"2012-04-20T13:10:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:10:35","slug":"florida-surfer-gives-shark-a-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30180","title":{"rendered":"Florida Surfer Gives Shark A Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old surfer was bitten on the hand while surfing last night (Thursday, April 19, 2012) in Melbourne Beach, Florida, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20120419\/NEWS01\/120419025\/Man-reported-bitten-by-shark-near-Melbourne-Beach\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Today<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was paddling out when he felt something grab his left hand. He looked into the water and saw a shark of unknown species that he estimated to be five feet long. Reflexively, he pulled his hand back. . . The man attempted to drive himself to the hospital, but pulled into the Wendy\u2019s parking lot near the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Miramar Avenue and called 911. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The surfer is reportedly in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20120419\/NEWS01\/120419025\/Man-reported-bitten-by-shark-near-Melbourne-Beach\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old surfer was bitten on the hand while surfing last night (Thursday, April 19, 2012) in Melbourne Beach, Florida, according to a story on Florida Today. He was paddling out when he felt something grab his left hand. He looked into the water and saw a shark of unknown species that he estimated to [&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\/30180"}],"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=30180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30182,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30180\/revisions\/30182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}