{"id":115123,"date":"2016-02-10T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=115123"},"modified":"2016-02-10T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:49:02","slug":"big-wave-surfers-gather-in-hawaii-for-prestigious-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=115123","title":{"rendered":"Big-wave surfers gather in Hawaii for prestigious event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Eddie would go.&#8221; That&#8217;s the mantra of the Quicksilver big wave surf competition in memory of Eddie Aikau, a Native Hawaiian surf legend who became famous for riding monster waves and saving hundreds of lives as Waimea Bay&#8217;s first official lifeguard.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in six years, the surf conditions on the North Shore of Oahu are expected to meet the organizers&#8217; strict minimum requirements on Wednesday, with waves of around 40-feet tall.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers and competitors alike wait and watch each year, inspecting the ocean for\u00a0 &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/big-wave-surfers-gather-hawaii-prestigious-event-071639199--spt.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Eddie would go.&#8221; That&#8217;s the mantra of the Quicksilver big wave surf competition in memory of Eddie Aikau, a Native Hawaiian surf legend who became famous for riding monster waves and saving hundreds of lives as Waimea Bay&#8217;s first official lifeguard. For the first time in six years, the surf conditions on the North Shore [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115123","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=115123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115124,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115123\/revisions\/115124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}