{"id":71427,"date":"2017-07-31T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-shark-deterrent-wetsuit-and-its-not-what-you-think"},"modified":"2017-08-02T21:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T04:01:15","slug":"a-shark-deterrent-wetsuit-and-its-not-what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-shark-deterrent-wetsuit-and-its-not-what-you-think","title":{"rendered":"A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it\u2019s not what you think)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-shark-deterrent-wetsuit-and-its-not-what-you-think2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hamish Jolly, an ocean swimmer in Australia, wanted a wetsuit that would deter a curious shark from mistaking him for a potential source of nourishment. (Which, statistically, is rare, but certainly a fate worth avoiding.) Working with a team of scientists, he and his friends came up with a fresh approach \u2014 not a shark cage, not a suit of chain-mail, but a sleek suit that taps our growing understanding of shark vision.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/ed.ted.com\/featured\/kqXKPm5e\">https:\/\/ed.ted.com\/featured\/kqXKPm5e<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamish Jolly, an ocean swimmer in Australia, wanted a wetsuit that would deter a curious shark from mistaking him for a potential source of nourishment. (Which, statistically, is rare, but certainly a fate worth avoiding.) Working with a team of scientists, he and his friends came up with a fresh approach \u2014 not a shark [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71565,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71427\/revisions\/71565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}