{"id":183,"date":"2006-09-03T23:58:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T04:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/03\/rip-steve-irwin\/"},"modified":"2006-09-05T21:31:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T02:31:56","slug":"rip-steve-irwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/03\/rip-steve-irwin\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Steve Irwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Irwin, best known as television&#8217;s Crocodile Hunter, has died after being struck by a stingray barb, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/crocodile-man--steve-irwin--dies\/2006\/09\/04\/1157222051494.html\">The Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our heart goes out to his wife and family.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The Daily Telegraph has more, describing it as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/story\/0,22049,20349541-5001021,00.html\">freak accident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200609\/s1732439.htm\">ABC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/article.aspx?id=127458\">ninemsn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[The ninemsn article has been updated with more details.]<\/p>\n<p>My reading over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marine-medic.com.au\/pages\/medical\/marine_animal_species.asp#Anchor-STINGRAY-37516\">Marine Medic<\/a> suggests that a stingray strike through the heart is a rare occurrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Irwin, best known as television&#8217;s Crocodile Hunter, has died after being struck by a stingray barb, according to The Age. Our heart goes out to his wife and family. UPDATE: The Daily Telegraph has more, describing it as a freak accident. MORE: ABC and ninemsn. [The ninemsn article has been updated with more details.] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-we-know-it"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-2X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}