{"id":10696,"date":"2009-04-28T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10696"},"modified":"2009-04-28T13:04:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T20:04:05","slug":"surfing-surfing-movie-to-surf-where-others-fear-to-go-three-mad-men-took-on-some-monster-waves-off-the-coast-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10696","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Surfing movie: to surf where others fear to go.  Three mad men took on some monster waves off the coast of Ireland."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This extraordinary video may look like it was shot in Hawaii or Australia, but here&#8217;s the shock. It was taken off the coast of Ireland in hard winter, filmed by three young men bent on a mission to find the perfect wave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">St Ives-based pro-surfer Tom Lowe and friends Fergal Smith and Mickey Smith have spent the past few months squaring up to vicious conditions on Ireland&#8217;s wild west coast, filming a stunning new surf movie. They were injured, almost drowned and encountered the kind of bitter weather that Lowe describes as &#8220;just stupid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In one heart-stopping moment Lowe was forced to &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/outdoors\/outdoor-activities\/5232125\/Surfing-movie-to-surf-where-others-fear-to-go.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WdFcm4IZxKM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WdFcm4IZxKM\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This extraordinary video may look like it was shot in Hawaii or Australia, but here&#8217;s the shock. It was taken off the coast of Ireland in hard winter, filmed by three young men bent on a mission to find the perfect wave. St Ives-based pro-surfer Tom Lowe and friends Fergal Smith and Mickey Smith have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10699,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions\/10699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}