{"id":41099,"date":"2025-11-12T22:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australian-windsurfer-escapes-shark-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:05:37","slug":"australian-windsurfer-escapes-shark-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australian-windsurfer-escapes-shark-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian windsurfer escapes shark attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Australian windsurfer Andy McDonald recalls surviving a shark attack in Margaret River, Western Australia earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr McDonald encountered the shark while windsurfing, saying later that he believed &#8220;this is the moment that is the end of my life&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The shark gnawed on his board and then dived deeper into the ocean, leaving him mostly unharmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">While the shark ruined his board, it has not stopped Mr McDonald already buying a new one so he can return to the waves soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/ckg45vpyg3ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian windsurfer Andy McDonald recalls surviving a shark attack in Margaret River, Western Australia earlier this week. Mr McDonald encountered the shark while windsurfing, saying later that he believed &#8220;this is the moment that is the end of my life&#8221;. The shark gnawed on his board and then dived deeper into the ocean, leaving him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1073,594,11117,1072,12626],"class_list":["post-41099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-attack","tag-australian","tag-escapes","tag-shark","tag-windsurfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41101,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099\/revisions\/41101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}