{"id":158940,"date":"2020-09-28T19:48:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158940"},"modified":"2020-09-28T19:48:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:48:55","slug":"surfer-loses-his-board-in-hawaii-and-it-turns-up-5000-miles-away-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158940","title":{"rendered":"Surfer loses his board in Hawaii and it turns up 5,000 miles away in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Doug Falter, who lives in Hawaii, lost his board in Walmea Bay, Oahu, in February 2018 and it was discovered six months later in the Philippines where a fisherman sold it for $40<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A man who lost his surfboard while surfing in Hawaii was shocked to find that it turned up over 5,000 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Falter, 35, who lives in Hawaii, lost his board in Walmea Bay, Oahu, in February 2018.<\/p>\n<p>It was later found by a fisherman in the Philippines who sold it to a teacher who wanted to learn how to surf, reports, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.<\/p>\n<p>On losing his board, Falter wrote on Facebook : &#8220;I was really upset as I managed to catch the biggest waves of my life on this board. That&#8217;s why it meant so much to me.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/surfer-loses-board-hawaii-turns-22751031\" 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>Doug Falter, who lives in Hawaii, lost his board in Walmea Bay, Oahu, in February 2018 and it was discovered six months later in the Philippines where a fisherman sold it for $40 A man who lost his surfboard while surfing in Hawaii was shocked to find that it turned up over 5,000 miles away. [&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-158940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158940","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=158940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158941,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158940\/revisions\/158941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}