{"id":773,"date":"2009-10-26T21:55:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2009-10-27T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T11:45:28","slug":"why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-theres-always-a-bigger-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-theres-always-a-bigger-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don’t go in the water: There’s always a bigger fish."},"content":{"rendered":"

Always<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’d be afraid of a 10-foot Great White…even behind a foot-thick wall of aquarium glass. Sure, I’d put a brave front up for the kids, but I’d also shudder the chill of the damned, as if a mariachi band — at that very moment — were collectively walking over my grave playing Besame Mucho Tiburon. <\/p>\n

So, I’m fairly certain I would become paralyzed instantly if I saw a 20-foot Great White bite the first one in half.<\/p>\n

\n“That cannibal thing is what great whites do; they’ll eat anything, including their own kind,” Hugh Edwards, a local shark expert, told Australia’s 7 News. “It would be sensible not to swim in that area for a little while.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dya think?<\/p>\n

Not for the faint of heart…hit the read more button (or the link above) if you weren’t planning to sleep tonight anyway.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"HOLY<\/p>\n

I’m going to be ill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Always. I’d be afraid of a 10-foot Great White…even behind a foot-thick wall of aquarium glass. Sure, I’d put a brave front up for the kids, but I’d also shudder the chill of the damned, as if a mariachi band — at that very moment — were collectively walking over my grave playing Besame Mucho […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[115],"tags":[119,69],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-go-in-the-water","tag-shark","tag-why-i-dont-go-in-the-water","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-ct","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","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=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}