{"id":1294,"date":"2009-02-11T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T06:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:45:00","slug":"surfers-gather-to-tackle-13km-tidal-bore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"Surfers gather to tackle 13km tidal bore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1296\" title=\"tidal-bore1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/tidal-bore1.jpg\" alt=\"tidal-bore1\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tidal-bore1.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tidal-bore1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Surfing a wave is usually all about catching a few fleeting moments of fun \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but for these surfers it&#8217;s more about staying power.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed head-to-toe in toasty wetsuits, surfers from around the world flocked to the Severn on Wednesday to ride a 13km (eight-mile) tidal bore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">The phenomenon saw a 1.2m (4ft) wave flow into the Severn Estuary, which has the second-biggest tidal range in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">But, while the surfers had their fun, spectators ran for higher ground as the surge pushed a storm-swollen river to burst its banks in places. &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/article.html?Surfers_gather_to_tackle_13km_tidal_bore&amp;in_article_id=531548&amp;in_page_id=34\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Surfing a wave is usually all about catching a few fleeting moments of fun \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but for these surfers it&#8217;s more about staying power. Dressed head-to-toe in toasty wetsuits, surfers from around the world flocked to the Severn on Wednesday to ride a 13km (eight-mile) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4656,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}