{"id":130078,"date":"2017-03-30T06:37:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=130078"},"modified":"2017-03-30T06:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:37:52","slug":"surfing-sampling-europes-best-and-scariest-big-wave-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=130078","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Sampling Europe\u2019s best (and scariest) big-wave spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big-wave surfing has become ingrained in European surf culture \u2014 epitomized in 2011, when Garrett McNamara set a world record for surfing a 78-foot monster at Nazar\u00e9, Portugal. In light of Nazar\u00e9 being added to the 2016\/2017 Big Wave Tour, we explored other European big waves and the hazards surfers face tackling these vast mountains of water.<\/p>\n<p>The rococo brilliance of a cresting wave that lures us in the larger it becomes is deceptive. You\u2019re unlikely to be attacked by a shark, yet you\u2019ve still got plenty of hazards (as ever when surfing big waves) in Europe &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/surf\/sampling-europes-best-and-scariest-big-wave-spots\/#Wz8MRqigpFbBGiTQ.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>Big-wave surfing has become ingrained in European surf culture \u2014 epitomized in 2011, when Garrett McNamara set a world record for surfing a 78-foot monster at Nazar\u00e9, Portugal. In light of Nazar\u00e9 being added to the 2016\/2017 Big Wave Tour, we explored other European big waves and the hazards surfers face tackling these vast mountains [&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-130078","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\/130078","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=130078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130079,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130078\/revisions\/130079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}