{"id":2421,"date":"2018-11-19T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2018-11-19T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:23:56","slug":"stingray-attack-kills-australian-man-in-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2018\/11\/19\/stingray-attack-kills-australian-man-in-tasmania\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stingray&#8217; attack kills Australian man in Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A 42-year-old man has died after a suspected stingray attack off the Tasmanian coast, Australian police say.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They said\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.police.tas.gov.au\/news-events\/media-releases\/death-of-42-year-old-male-foreshore-of-lauderdale-beach-17112018\/\">the man developed a cardiac arrest after &#8220;sustaining a puncture to his lower abdomen&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0at Lauderdale Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the wound was &#8220;possibly inflicted by a marine animal&#8221;. Officials told local media it was consistent with a stingray attack.<\/p>\n<p>Stingrays are not considered dangerous, even though one killed Australian conservationist Steve Irwin in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the Crocodile Hunter after his wildlife television show, Irwin died when a stingray&#8217;s tail stabbed him in the heart.<\/p>\n<p>There have been, however, more reports of shark attacks in Australia recently and the Tasmanian police were keen to stress the Lauderdale Beach incident was not shark-related.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-46252112<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 42-year-old man has died after a suspected stingray attack off the Tasmanian coast, Australian police say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}