{"id":32133,"date":"2012-09-06T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32133"},"modified":"2012-09-06T11:15:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:15:30","slug":"shark-bites-florida-surfers-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32133","title":{"rendered":"Shark Bites Florida Surfer&#8217;s Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it may like nearly all Florida surfers eventually get bitten by a shark, that is not the case, however, on Tuesday, September 4, 2012, a 32-year-old surfer was hit while riding waves in Melbourne Beach, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/09\/04\/2983930\/shark-bites-surfer-at-flas-space.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The surfer told authorities he was paddling out from shore at Melbourne Beach when he placed his hand in the water and felt a bite. . . His hand was treated by paramedics at the beach, and he didn&#8217;t need to be taken to a hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While half of the &#8220;unprovoked shark attacks&#8221; in the US in 2012 have happened in Florida, this was reportedly only the third shark attack in Brevard County this year. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/09\/04\/2983930\/shark-bites-surfer-at-flas-space.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it may like nearly all Florida surfers eventually get bitten by a shark, that is not the case, however, on Tuesday, September 4, 2012, a 32-year-old surfer was hit while riding waves in Melbourne Beach, according to a story in the Miami Herald. The surfer told authorities he was paddling out from shore at [&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\/32133"}],"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=32133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32135,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133\/revisions\/32135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}