{"id":280341,"date":"2025-11-12T21:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280341\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:19:13","slug":"australian-windsurfer-escapes-shark-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280341\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian windsurfer escapes shark attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian windsurfer Andy McDonald recalls surviving a shark attack in Margaret River, Western Australia earlier this week. Mr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-280341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}