{"id":135628,"date":"2017-09-18T06:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=135628"},"modified":"2017-09-18T06:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:58:07","slug":"are-crocodiles-really-a-threat-to-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=135628","title":{"rendered":"Are crocodiles really a threat to surfers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the tragic death of British journalist Paul McClean in Sri Lanka on Thursday, it seems surfers can now add crocodiles to the list of deadly dangers in the sport. While McLean wasn\u2019t actually surfing at the time of his death, he had been staying at a surf camp near the well-known spot of Elephant Rock and had walked 500 yards to relieve himself near a lagoon when he was taken by the crocodile.<\/p>\n<p>Surfers in Sri Lanka haven\u2019t traditionally had a problem with crocodiles\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/surf\/are-crocodiles-really-a-threat-to-surfers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the tragic death of British journalist Paul McClean in Sri Lanka on Thursday, it seems surfers can now add crocodiles to the list of deadly dangers in the sport. While McLean wasn\u2019t actually surfing at the time of his death, he had been staying at a surf camp near the well-known spot of Elephant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,54,28,33,11,81,18,36,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-bodyboarding","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-kiteboard","category-misc","category-scuba-diving-snorkeling","category-surf","category-water-skiing","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135628","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=135628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135629,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135628\/revisions\/135629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}