{"id":105293,"date":"2015-04-15T06:43:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=105293"},"modified":"2015-04-15T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:43:28","slug":"sharks-fact-and-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=105293","title":{"rendered":"Sharks: Fact And Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfers have plenty of theories about what attracts sharks and what makes a spot sharky. Peeing in your wetsuit. Blood. Colored wetsuits. Rivermouths. Murky water. Deep canyons. Et cetera. In the interest of separating fact from fiction, SURFING Editor-at-Large Taylor Paul brought a list of these theories, which he gathered through an informal survey of the SURFING staff, to present to Dr. Salvador Jorgensen, a research scientist and shark expert at the Monterey Bay Aquarium \u2014 and also a dedicated surfer. So does scientific research confirm or deny our sharky superstitions? Here\u2019s what Dr. Sal had to say\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingmagazine.com\/blogs\/sharks-fact-and-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfers have plenty of theories about what attracts sharks and what makes a spot sharky. Peeing in your wetsuit. Blood. Colored wetsuits. Rivermouths. Murky water. Deep canyons. Et cetera. In the interest of separating fact from fiction, SURFING Editor-at-Large Taylor Paul brought a list of these theories, which he gathered through an informal survey of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,28,33,11,81,18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodyboarding","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-kiteboard","category-misc","category-scuba-diving-snorkeling","category-surf","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105295,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105293\/revisions\/105295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}