{"id":6581,"date":"2009-03-30T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2009-03-30T10:05:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:05:37","slug":"surfing-shark-experience-santa-cruz-surfer-says-he-had-encounter-with-great-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6581","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Shark experience: Santa Cruz surfer says he had encounter with great white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the fog lifts from Rio del Mar beach, the sun&#8217;s warmth permeates, convincing Ryan Mackey and me to paddle out at Platform&#8217;s, despite the uninspiring surf conditions. We enjoy the beautiful weather and clear water as we surf small, inconsistent wind-waves close to shore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While waiting for a set, a dark, large object in the water catches my peripherals. There, within eight feet of me, placed still in the water, the ocean&#8217;s most infamous predatory fish &#8212; a great white shark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The clarity of the water allows me to see its gills, the speckled skin going from dark to light, and its sheer size, which looks about 10-12 feet long. Fear penetrates my bones, heightened from all the shark-week programs and cheesy TV dramatizations that hype the great white as vicious and bloodthirsty&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/centralcoast\/ci_12027119\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the fog lifts from Rio del Mar beach, the sun&#8217;s warmth permeates, convincing Ryan Mackey and me to paddle out at Platform&#8217;s, despite the uninspiring surf conditions. We enjoy the beautiful weather and clear water as we surf small, inconsistent wind-waves close to shore. While waiting for a set, a dark, large object in [&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-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","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=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6583,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}