{"id":115656,"date":"2016-02-26T07:40:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T14:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=115656"},"modified":"2016-02-26T07:40:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T14:40:51","slug":"surfing-history-made-at-emotional-eddie-aikau-big-wave-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=115656","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; History made at emotional Eddie Aikau big-wave contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau big-wave invitational was held today and there was no shortage of awe-inspiring and emotional moments.<\/p>\n<p>With wave heights reaching up to 50 feet, drama was inevitable but recent events that happened outside the lineup gave bigger meaning to the memorial surf contest.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the contest has the chance of running, if a swell is able to consistently pump out 20 to 30 foot waves for eight hours, because that\u2019s when Eddie would go\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/surf\/history-made-at-emotional-eddie-aikau\/#FxoxP6422hZqBMeY.97\" 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>The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau big-wave invitational was held today and there was no shortage of awe-inspiring and emotional moments. With wave heights reaching up to 50 feet, drama was inevitable but recent events that happened outside the lineup gave bigger meaning to the memorial surf contest. Each year, the contest has the [&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-115656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115656","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=115656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115657,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115656\/revisions\/115657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}