{"id":1292,"date":"2015-04-04T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T18:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2015-04-04T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:15:49","slug":"what-do-you-do-when-a-bull-shark-swims-2-feet-from-your-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/2015\/04\/what-do-you-do-when-a-bull-shark-swims-2-feet-from-your-child\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you do when a bull shark swims 2 feet from your child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2015\/04\/shark.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1295\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2015\/04\/shark-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"shark teeth\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You make a movie about it, of course!<\/p>\n<p>Our family vacationed in Florida last week, and one afternoon while I sat on the beach watching my fishing poles, a 6-ft. bull shark (<em>likely<\/em>) swam within 2 feet of my 13-year old daughter and her 5-year old cousin. The shark came in looking for a dead fish.\u00a0Someone had cleaned a pompano and thrown the carcass back into the ocean. My son had discovered the fish and, of course, was using a sand flea net to try to pick it up. Bull sharks can smell one drop of blood 1\/4-mile away, and this one slipped between\u00a0my daughter and her cousin before\u00a0reaching his meal. Pretty tense moment!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2015\/04\/letter.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1293\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2015\/04\/letter-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"letter\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s\u00a0the latest in the Jaws series:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5O_jjE6FzAg&#038;feature=em-upload_owner\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5O_jjE6FzAg&amp;feature=em-upload_owner<\/a>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You make a movie about it, of course! Our family vacationed in Florida last week, and one afternoon while I sat on the beach watching my fishing poles, a 6-ft. bull shark (likely) swam within 2 feet of my 13-year old daughter and her 5-year old cousin. The shark came in looking for a dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1106,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1642,1641,33,1639,1649,1651,1650,1645,1648,1653,1644,1652,1640,1646,1647,1643],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beach","tag-bull-shark","tag-fishing","tag-florida","tag-jaws","tag-jaws-6","tag-mote","tag-pompano","tag-sand-flea","tag-shark-fishing","tag-sharks","tag-sport-fishing","tag-st-georges-island","tag-surf","tag-surf-fishing","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}