{"id":58058,"date":"2011-12-23T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58058"},"modified":"2011-12-23T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T17:22:10","slug":"kayak-angler-survives-shark-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58058","title":{"rendered":"Kayak Angler Survives Shark Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">IN an extraordinary incident off Noordhoek in Port Elizabeth yesterday, an angler and the kayak he was fishing from were knocked clear out of the water by a marauding great white shark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kayak fishermen are often visited by curious sharks while they are fishing, but this is believed to be one of only a few where one of these super-predators has actually attacked a kayak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Werner Coetzee, 35, and the front of the boat he was in, were knocked about 2.5m out of the water by the force of the attack, which occurred\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/press-release\/kayak-angler-survives-shark-attack_64214\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN an extraordinary incident off Noordhoek in Port Elizabeth yesterday, an angler and the kayak he was fishing from were knocked clear out of the water by a marauding great white shark. Kayak fishermen are often visited by curious sharks while they are fishing, but this is believed to be one of only a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58058","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=58058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58059,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58058\/revisions\/58059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}