{"id":89660,"date":"2014-01-24T20:14:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T03:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89660"},"modified":"2014-01-24T20:14:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T03:14:04","slug":"grant-twiggy-baker-wins-mavericks-invitational-big-wave-surfing-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89660","title":{"rendered":"Grant \u2018Twiggy\u2019 Baker wins Mavericks Invitational big-wave surfing contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For 24 of the world\u2019s premier big-wave surfers, Friday was tumultuous and at times harrowing, but a day they would not have traded for anything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The waves were massive, the drops almost sheer, the wipeouts brutal, and in the end Grant \u201cTwiggy\u201d Baker stood alone as champion of the Body Glove Mavericks Invitational at notorious Mavericks outside of Half Moon Bay, California.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But all of the invitees considered themselves winners, having been able to surf\u2014and survive\u2014one of the most powerful swells to slam the golden state in years\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/surf\/post\/grant-twiggy-baker-wins-mavericks-invitational-big-wave-surfing-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RzF_kFEAFaY?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>For 24 of the world\u2019s premier big-wave surfers, Friday was tumultuous and at times harrowing, but a day they would not have traded for anything. The waves were massive, the drops almost sheer, the wipeouts brutal, and in the end Grant \u201cTwiggy\u201d Baker stood alone as champion of the Body Glove Mavericks Invitational at notorious [&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-89660","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\/89660","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=89660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89661,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89660\/revisions\/89661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}