{"id":122,"date":"2007-05-15T07:54:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T12:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-05-15T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T13:00:03","slug":"talk-about-shark-repellent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/talk-about-shark-repellent\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about shark repellent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that sharks &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vpmGeN0vaaE&amp;mode=related&amp;search=\">hate<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CWKvyqrrsrA\">magnets<\/a>. (They are also not terribly fond of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W8GaDuCvYbE&amp;mode=related&amp;search=\" target=\"_blank\">killer whales<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;ll be taking my life in my hands this summer lining my pockets with rare earth magnets before entering the surf. I may sink like a brick, but I could score some nifty old nickels.<\/p>\n<p>If only they had giant squid repellent. Nothing frightens me like the ocean. There&#8217;s stuff in there that will eat you.  They can see you, but you can&#8217;t see them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m perfectly happy on a kayak, but a portion of my primal monkey brain screeches and points as soon as I put toesies into the surf.  I also instinctively duck when a raptor flies overhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that sharks &#8211; hate &#8211; magnets. (They are also not terribly fond of killer whales.) Of course, I&#8217;ll be taking my life in my hands this summer lining my pockets with rare earth magnets before entering the surf. I may sink like a brick, but I could score some nifty old nickels. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-1Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}