{"id":158834,"date":"2020-09-21T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158834"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:07:40","slug":"famed-jewel-thief-surf-champ-and-killer-murf-the-surf-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158834","title":{"rendered":"Famed Jewel Thief, Surf Champ and Killer \u2018Murf the Surf&#8217; Dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack \u201cMurf the Surf\u201d Murphy, who grew up in Carlsbad and was behind one of the biggest jewel heists in U.S. history, and also gained membership in a surfing hall of fame and served time for murder, has died in Florida. He was 83.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy&#8217;s death earlier this week was confirmed by John Hughes, director of the Florida Surf Museum in Cocoa Beach, Florida, who has been in touch with Murphy&#8217;s friends and family members. A longtime friend, fellow surfer Bill Yerkes, also confirmed his death\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/famed-jewel-thief-surf-champ-and-killer-murf-the-surf-dies-at-83\/2406800\/\" 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>Jack \u201cMurf the Surf\u201d Murphy, who grew up in Carlsbad and was behind one of the biggest jewel heists in U.S. history, and also gained membership in a surfing hall of fame and served time for murder, has died in Florida. He was 83. Murphy&#8217;s death earlier this week was confirmed by John Hughes, director [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158834","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=158834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158835,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158834\/revisions\/158835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}