{"id":89330,"date":"2014-01-16T22:29:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T05:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89330"},"modified":"2014-01-16T22:29:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T05:29:59","slug":"rare-surf-competition-in-honor-of-hawaiian-hero-eddie-aikau-may-soon-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89330","title":{"rendered":"Rare surf competition in honor of Hawaiian hero Eddie Aikau may soon take place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An elite Hawaiian surfing competition held only when waves are 35 feet or higher may be called within the coming week on the north shore of the island of Oahu. The last time it was held? 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;The Eddie,&#8221; named in honor of Hawaiian hero Eddie Aikau, was last held at Waimea Bay in 2009. It&#8217;s sponsored by Quicksilver, and involves flying in a selected group of the strongest, most elite surfers in the world. The waves are deadly; injuries and deaths in this area and with waves that high do happen\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/01\/16\/rare-surf-competition-held-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/igHSX-e4m64?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elite Hawaiian surfing competition held only when waves are 35 feet or higher may be called within the coming week on the north shore of the island of Oahu. The last time it was held? 2009. &#8220;The Eddie,&#8221; named in honor of Hawaiian hero Eddie Aikau, was last held at Waimea Bay in 2009. [&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-89330","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\/89330","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=89330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89331,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89330\/revisions\/89331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}