{"id":161246,"date":"2021-06-29T19:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T02:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161246"},"modified":"2021-07-06T20:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T03:29:48","slug":"greg-noll-legendary-big-wave-rider-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161246","title":{"rendered":"Greg Noll, legendary big-wave rider, dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far from the hotels, mai tai bars and tourists at Waikiki in Honolulu, Greg Noll sat on his surfboard beyond the frothy waves and considered his fate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were horrible, absolutely horrible,\u201d he later said of the mountains of water that rose menacing in the darkened sky, whipped up by a legendary storm in 1969. \u201cThe whole situation gave me a sick feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He could die, he reasoned. Or he could spend the rest of his life regretting the missed opportunity &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/story\/2021-06-29\/greg-noll-south-bay-surfer-legendary-big-wave-rider-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5JIJ-TngPoc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from the hotels, mai tai bars and tourists at Waikiki in Honolulu, Greg Noll sat on his surfboard beyond the frothy waves and considered his fate. \u201cThey were horrible, absolutely horrible,\u201d he later said of the mountains of water that rose menacing in the darkened sky, whipped up by a legendary storm in 1969. [&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-161246","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\/161246","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=161246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161323,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161246\/revisions\/161323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}