{"id":912,"date":"2006-09-04T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/912"},"modified":"2006-09-04T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T12:58:00","slug":"steve-crocodile-hunter-irwin-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/steve-crocodile-hunter-irwin-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve ‘Crocodile hunter’ Irwin Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Irwin, the passionate conservationist who shot to international fame as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed today in a freak accident while diving off the north Queensland coast.
In a bitter irony, the man who risked his life handling one of the world’s most dangerous reptiles was mortally wounded by a stingray, a usually passive sea creature which attacks only if threatened. [Via Guardian<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wikipedia entries on Steve<\/a> and Stingray<\/a><\/p>\n

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Steve Irwin, the passionate conservationist who shot to international fame as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed today in a freak accident while diving off the north Queensland coast.In a bitter irony, the man who risked his life handling one of the world’s most dangerous reptiles was mortally wounded by a stingray, a usually passive sea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Suman Kumar","author_link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/author\/suman-kumar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Steve Irwin, the passionate conservationist who shot to international fame as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed today in a freak accident while diving off the north Queensland coast.In a bitter irony, the man who risked his life handling one of the world’s most dangerous reptiles was mortally wounded by a stingray, a usually passive sea…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gbk8-eI","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":98,"url":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/e-learning-2-0-how-web-technologies-are-shaping-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":912,"position":0},"title":"e-learning 2.0 – how Web technologies are shaping education","author":"Suman Kumar","date":"August 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Written by Steve O'Hear and edited by Richard MacManus. 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