{"id":74586,"date":"2020-09-29T08:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T12:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=74586"},"modified":"2020-09-29T08:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T12:51:21","slug":"man-jumps-in-ocean-to-touch-shark-thinks-its-harmless-it-was-more-than-likely-a-great-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/man-jumps-in-ocean-to-touch-shark-thinks-its-harmless-it-was-more-than-likely-a-great-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Jumps In Ocean To Touch Shark, Thinks It&#8217;s Harmless&#8230;It Was More Than Likely A Great White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74587\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/man-jumps-in-swims-with-shark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/man-jumps-in-swims-with-shark.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/man-jumps-in-swims-with-shark-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/man-jumps-in-swims-with-shark-768x455.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A video which has gone viral on Reddit shows a man leaping into the water with what he believes is a harmless basking shark. It\u2019s unclear where the video was taken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a bad idea,\u201d he yells, surfacing. \u201cOh I touched it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s friend then sees the shark as it swims by the boat: \u201cThat\u2019s not a basking shark, dude!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\" data-card-created=\"1601383659\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheOutlawsAssociation\/comments\/j0vv1s\/thats_not_a_basking_shark_dude\/?ref=share&amp;ref_source=embed\">&#8220;that&#8217;s not a basking shark Dude!&#8221;<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheOutlawsAssociation\">r\/TheOutlawsAssociation<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/embed.redditmedia.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sharks\/comments\/j12q7v\/so_what_type_of_shark_is_it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a separate thread on the shark subreddit<\/a>, users seem split on what kind of shark it is. Basking sharks have curved dorsal fins while Great White dorsal fins are pointed. Basking sharks also have a set of very visible gills that extend all the way around its torso to the top of its body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video which has gone viral on Reddit shows a man leaping into the water with what he believes is a harmless basking shark. It\u2019s unclear where the video was taken. \u201cThat was a bad idea,\u201d he yells, surfacing. \u201cOh I touched it!\u201d The man\u2019s friend then sees the shark as it swims by the boat: \u201cThat\u2019s not a basking shark, dude!\u201d &#8220;that&#8217;s not a basking shark Dude!&#8221; from r\/TheOutlawsAssociation In a separate thread on the shark subreddit, users seem split on what kind of shark it is. Basking sharks have curved dorsal fins while Great White dorsal fins are <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":74587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[20225,29009,8883,24764,9240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74586"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=74586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}