{"id":17376,"date":"2009-07-25T07:39:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17376"},"modified":"2009-07-25T07:39:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T14:39:54","slug":"surfing-bodyboard-high-surf-arriving-at-s-cal-beaches-prompting-safety-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17376","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Bodyboard &#8211; High surf arriving at S. Cal beaches, prompting safety warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The National Weather Service issued a high-surf warning for Southern California, with waves as high as 8 feet expected on southwest-facing beaches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Forecasters said the waves will peak Saturday, a day when thousands are expected to head to the beaches because of the continuing heat wave. Some minor flooding in low-lying coastal areas is possible, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;If you plan on swimming, always stay near staffed lifeguard stations. But the safest plan is to stay out of the water completely,&#8221; the NWS said in its statement. &#8220;Stay off rocks and jetties as large waves can fatally force people into the water without warning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Surfline.com predicted &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/07\/high-surf-arrives-at-beaches-prompting-safety-warning.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service issued a high-surf warning for Southern California, with waves as high as 8 feet expected on southwest-facing beaches. Forecasters said the waves will peak Saturday, a day when thousands are expected to head to the beaches because of the continuing heat wave. Some minor flooding in low-lying coastal areas is possible, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376","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=17376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17378,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions\/17378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}