{"id":39436,"date":"2010-10-28T13:35:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T20:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=39436"},"modified":"2010-10-28T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T20:36:25","slug":"surfing-video-surviving-the-tsunami-at-macaronis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=39436","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Video &#8211; Surviving the tsunami at Macaroni&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinned underneath debris as a tsunami engulfed him, Australian surfer Ben Robin thought he was about to die. Then, when he managed to swim free, he climbed a tree and waited as several smaller waves washed beneath. Finally, when the Byron Bay man thought it was safe to come down, he and his mates spent a terrifying night in a three-storey observation deck, all that was left of the Macronis surfing resort in Indonesia&#8217;s Mentawai islands.<\/p>\n<p>He felt the ground shake and was sure the next one would bring an even bigger tsunami that would kill them all. &#8220;I thought it was\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfersvillage.com\/surfing\/49342\/news.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinned underneath debris as a tsunami engulfed him, Australian surfer Ben Robin thought he was about to die. Then, when he managed to swim free, he climbed a tree and waited as several smaller waves washed beneath. Finally, when the Byron Bay man thought it was safe to come down, he and his mates spent [&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-39436","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\/39436","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=39436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39439,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39436\/revisions\/39439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}