{"id":117860,"date":"2016-04-22T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=117860"},"modified":"2016-04-22T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T20:14:58","slug":"fire-tears-through-popular-bali-surf-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=117860","title":{"rendered":"Fire tears through popular Bali surf spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Padang Padang is a beach in Bali that is home to some of the most pristine warm-water tubes in the world. Unfortunately for surfers on the Indonesian island on Thursday, the waters were calm but something else was firing on shore: A fierce inferno that left numerous houses, homes and businesses burned to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by SURFER, news of the fire started to spread Thursday afternoon after Pete Matthews, Rip Curl\u2019s Indonesian chairman, took to Instagram to post a photo of his home as well as numerous other hotels and warungs (small Indonesian businesses that double as homesteads) engulfed in flames that apparently spread quickly by strong northern winds.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews was working at his surf shop, less than a mile away from the blaze, when he got a phone call alerting him to the fire in progress and ran home to try to help contain the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inside of the house was already an inferno,\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/surf\/fire-tears-through-popular-bali-surf-spot\/#1DBdkTA03lr3Sdc6.97\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padang Padang is a beach in Bali that is home to some of the most pristine warm-water tubes in the world. Unfortunately for surfers on the Indonesian island on Thursday, the waters were calm but something else was firing on shore: A fierce inferno that left numerous houses, homes and businesses burned to the ground. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117860","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=117860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117861,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117860\/revisions\/117861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}