{"id":632,"date":"2006-09-04T18:40:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T01:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2006-09-05T07:21:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T14:21:50","slug":"what-a-croc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/09\/04\/what-a-croc\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Croc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steve Irwin, 1962-2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 11:00 a.m. local time (0100 UTC) on 4 September 2006, Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a short-tail stingray barb while diving in Batt Reef (part of the Great Barrier Reef), off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with all due respect to the recently deceased, how in the hell can <strong>Rich Lowry<\/strong> and <strong>Alan Colmes<\/strong> (on H&#038;C &#8212; Fox News) spend an entire freakin&#8217; hour talking about this weirdo?<\/p>\n<p>All I can recall about this guy was the time he carelessly dangled his infant son in front of a crocodile which prompted an Australian law change:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/National\/Steve-Irwin-baby-concerns-prompt-law-change\/2005\/02\/23\/1109046983142.html\">Steve Irwin baby concerns prompt law change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/november\/irwin-crock.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve Irwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to hold his baby son near a crocodile has sparked a review of Queensland Government crocodile enclosure guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The State Government yesterday released the new rules prohibiting children and any untrained adult from entering crocodile enclosures.<\/p>\n<p>In January last year, Mr Irwin, known as the Crocodile Hunter, held his baby son Bob close to a crocodile at his Australia Zoo on Queensland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was captured by television cameras, sparking an international outcry and a review of crocodile handling practices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Regardless of our personal opinions, we send condolences to Mrs. Irwin and Steve&#8217;s daughter and son.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Irwin, 1962-2006 Shortly after 11:00 a.m. local time (0100 UTC) on 4 September 2006, Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a short-tail stingray&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}