{"id":90229,"date":"2014-02-07T07:48:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T14:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90229"},"modified":"2014-02-07T07:48:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T14:48:15","slug":"surfing-the-not-so-great-shark-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90229","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; The Not So Great Shark Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More than Maverick\u2019s, more than Kelly Slater, more than barrels and way more than alley-oops, sharks are what separate surfing from every other sport. They lurk, those morbid creeps, under blankets of ocean and can end a man\u2019s life in the blink of a bull shark\u2019s distant eye. It\u2019s what makes surfing unique. In tennis, Rafael Nadal mustn\u2019t worry about getting mauled by a black bear as he serves. In basketball, Kobe Bryant wastes no time in pondering the threat of a Siberian tiger when he\u2019s going hard in or around the paint. But as surfers, the presence of sharks is something we have to face day in and day out. When we enter the ocean, we hand over our fate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sometimes fate can be a bitch. A savage, toothy bitch\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingmagazine.com\/news\/west-australia-shark-culling\/\" 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>More than Maverick\u2019s, more than Kelly Slater, more than barrels and way more than alley-oops, sharks are what separate surfing from every other sport. They lurk, those morbid creeps, under blankets of ocean and can end a man\u2019s life in the blink of a bull shark\u2019s distant eye. It\u2019s what makes surfing unique. In tennis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90229","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=90229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90230,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90229\/revisions\/90230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}