{"id":45169,"date":"2014-02-10T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45169"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:16:09","slug":"goldie-surfer-speared-in-surf-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45169","title":{"rendered":"Goldie Surfer Speared In Surf Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/698102-d113d47c-9068-11e3-b83b-4946ef7bdce3.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/698102-d113d47c-9068-11e3-b83b-4946ef7bdce3.jpg','popup','width=650,height=366,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\/2014\/02\/698102-d113d47c-9068-11e3-b83b-4946ef7bdce3-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"698102-D113D47C-9068-11E3-B83B-4946Ef7Bdce3\" \/><\/a>Gold Coast surfer and professional abalone diver <strong>Mark Morlock<\/strong>, 41, could lose his right eye after an attack he calls the &#8220;most brutal and cowardly thing I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/man-speared-by-board-in-surfrage-attack\/story-fnihsrf2-1226821698140\" target=\"_blank\">Courier-Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Another surfer fired his board directly into Morlock&#8217;s face stabbing him in the eye while the two were at Snapper Rocks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said a fellow surfer who he unwittingly cut off on a wave at the same break about five months ago confronted him. . . \u201cI heard a voice behind me go \u2018hey you\u2019 and I\u2019ve turned around and he goes \u2018you remember me?\u2019,\u201d Mr Morlock said. . . \u201cI said \u2018yeah I remember you, what do you want?\u2019. Then he let his board go from between his legs, straight into my face. He said \u2018you\u2019re not laughing now, are you mate?\u2019 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Morlock has reportedly undergone 12 hours of micro surgery to save the eye and the offender is described as a &#8220;notorious troublemaker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/man-speared-by-board-in-surfrage-attack\/story-fnihsrf2-1226821698140\" target=\"_blank\">Courier-Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Coast surfer and professional abalone diver Mark Morlock, 41, could lose his right eye after an attack he calls the &#8220;most brutal and cowardly thing I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; according to a story in the Courier-Mail. Another surfer fired his board directly into Morlock&#8217;s face stabbing him in the eye while the two were 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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45169"}],"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=45169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45170,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45169\/revisions\/45170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}