{"id":158251,"date":"2020-07-18T20:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158251"},"modified":"2020-07-18T20:08:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:08:42","slug":"former-surfing-world-champion-derek-ho-dies-at-age-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158251","title":{"rendered":"Former surfing world champion Derek Ho dies at age 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Former World Champion Derek Ho has died, after a sudden and unexpected medical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Loved ones tell us he suffered heart failure. The loss was an unexpected blow to the surfing community.<\/p>\n<p>Ho became the first native Hawaiian to win a world title in 1993. And at age 55, he was still in top shape.<\/p>\n<p>During the past season, he caught a wave at Pipeline so pristine that it was nominated for the wave of the winter award.<\/p>\n<p>Ho was even invited to surf in a legends heat at The Eddie contest at Waimea Bay this past winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Derek\u2019s up in heaven and he\u2019s in that happy place,\u201d said Bret Marumoto, who worked as\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2020\/07\/18\/former-surfing-world-champion-derek-ho-dies-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Former World Champion Derek Ho has died, after a sudden and unexpected medical condition. Loved ones tell us he suffered heart failure. The loss was an unexpected blow to the surfing community. Ho became the first native Hawaiian to win a world title in 1993. And at age 55, he was [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158251","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=158251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158252,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158251\/revisions\/158252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}