{"id":154127,"date":"2019-11-25T11:11:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=154127"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:11:24","slug":"surf-video-toxic-point-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=154127","title":{"rendered":"Surf Video &#8211; TOXIC POINT #ITALY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey Roby! You want to have some fun?! We have a gift for you&#8230;&#8221; These are exactly the words I heard from behind me as I was checking a spot after a 6 hour drive, realizing that the waves were much smaller than the forecast. We exchanged hellos and they said, &#8220;Follow us!&#8221; So I did, then jumped in their car, drove for 10 minutes and arrived at the spot. After seeing the first set, I was left speechless. My heart started to beat faster as the adrenaline started to course through my veins and euphoria kicked in. The heavy rains created a perfect sandbar in front of a rivermouth and though the water was toxic, I knew I only had a couple of hours before it would disappear like a mirage that never was. In fact the next morning it was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring good waves in Italy is very hard, but when it happens, take a deep breath and make the most of it, because it will not happen again anytime soon. &#8211; Roberto D&#8217;amico<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/374373247?title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" 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>&#8220;Hey Roby! You want to have some fun?! We have a gift for you&#8230;&#8221; These are exactly the words I heard from behind me as I was checking a spot after a 6 hour drive, realizing that the waves were much smaller than the forecast. We exchanged hellos and they said, &#8220;Follow us!&#8221; So I [&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-154127","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\/154127","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=154127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154128,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154127\/revisions\/154128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}