{"id":132651,"date":"2017-06-08T07:02:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132651"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:02:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:02:50","slug":"surf-video-bethany-hamilton-is-the-waterman-of-the-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132651","title":{"rendered":"Surf Video &#8211; Bethany Hamilton is the Waterman of the Year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaiian surfer hero Bethany Hamilton has been named the Waterman of the Year 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) decided to honor pro surfer Bethany Hamilton with the prestigious award for her inspirational work in the surfing community.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing her left arm in a shark attack in 2003, the young and talented athlete didn&#8217;t stop surfing, competing and participating in motivational conferences and\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/13686-bethany-hamilton-is-the-waterman-of-the-year-2017?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fsurfing+%28Surf+News+%7C+SurferToday.com%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bethany Hamilton on Overcoming Obstacles<\/strong> &#8211; At thirteen years old, Bethany&#8217;s life came to a halt. She was bitten by a shark out in Hawaii while surfing, and lost her left arm. In this video, Bethany shares how her faith carried her through this obstacle she had to overcome.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gX4isFmh9hI?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaiian surfer hero Bethany Hamilton has been named the Waterman of the Year 2017. The Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) decided to honor pro surfer Bethany Hamilton with the prestigious award for her inspirational work in the surfing community. Despite losing her left arm in a shark attack in 2003, the young and talented athlete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132651","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=132651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132652,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132651\/revisions\/132652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}