{"id":109353,"date":"2015-08-19T19:06:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T02:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=109353"},"modified":"2015-08-19T19:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T02:06:52","slug":"its-a-red-alert-for-great-white-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=109353","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a red alert for great white sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Mr. Whitey looks up at the dark silhouette of a kayak against a sun-lit sky, his micro-sized brain does not always decipher that the plastic boat isn\u2019t something to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Or that the person in a wetsuit is not a shark mint.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when that biting thing can happen. Darn. And here we were having such a good time.<\/p>\n<p>I admit, the possibility scares me.<\/p>\n<p>In the next two months, all the factors seem aligned for increased chances of great white shark encounters and attacks off the Bay Area coast.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">El Ni\u00f1o factor<\/span><strong>: <\/strong>This past week, 17 miles off San Francisco, the ocean temperature\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/outdoors\/article\/It-s-a-red-alert-for-great-white-sharks-6446565.php?cmpid=email-mobile\" 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>When Mr. Whitey looks up at the dark silhouette of a kayak against a sun-lit sky, his micro-sized brain does not always decipher that the plastic boat isn\u2019t something to eat. Or that the person in a wetsuit is not a shark mint. That\u2019s when that biting thing can happen. Darn. And here we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,54,28,11,18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-bodyboarding","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-misc","category-surf","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109353","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=109353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109354,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109353\/revisions\/109354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}