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‘Like fighting a dinosaur’: Sydney woman recalls how she punched shark during attack<\/a>  BBC‘Which limb am I willing to lose’: Sydney mum recalls shark attack<\/a>  ABC News & Headlines \u2013 Australian Broadcasting Corporation\u2018I did think she was going to die\u2019: How strangers saved shark attack victim Leah Stewart<\/a>  SMH.com.au\u2018You ugly f—er\u2019: Leah Stewart\u2019s incredible survival as four-metre shark attacked on Coogee Beach<\/a>  Nine.com.auMum\u2019s distressing fear after shark attack<\/a>  News.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Like fighting a dinosaur’: Sydney woman recalls how she punched shark during attack  BBC‘Which limb am I willing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-874580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874580","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=874580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}