{"id":2806,"date":"2009-03-07T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:50:59","slug":"surfing-shark-alert-at-the-quiksilver-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Shark alert at the Quiksilver Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\"><strong style=\"display: block;\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\"><strong style=\"display: block;\">ORGANISERS of the men&#8217;s world surfing event, the Quiksilver Pro, are on heightened alert after unconfirmed shark sightings in nearby waters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contest director Rod Brooks said he had received reports of large groups of sharks at Fingal Head, about 5km south of the competition area at Snapper Rocks, on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>He said workers with binoculars had already been placed at look-out points around<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/story\/0,22049,25153019-5001023,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORGANISERS of the men&#8217;s world surfing event, the Quiksilver Pro, are on heightened alert after unconfirmed shark sightings in nearby waters. Contest director Rod Brooks said he had received reports of large groups of sharks at Fingal Head, about 5km south of the competition area at Snapper Rocks, on the Gold Coast. He said workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","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=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}