{"id":89973,"date":"2014-01-30T21:17:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89973"},"modified":"2014-01-30T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T04:17:48","slug":"surfing-greg-long-faces-fear-and-beauty-at-the-spot-that-nearly-ended-his-life-cortes-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89973","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Greg Long faces fear and beauty at the spot that nearly ended his life &#8212; Cortes Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In January of 2013, I sat down with a haunted young man to discuss an episode that had almost ended his life. The story of Greg Long&#8217;s near drowning at Cortes Bank a month earlier was fairly well told by that time, but Greg had yet to reveal much about how his drowning and journey back to the living had actually affected<br \/>\nhim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The conversation was difficult. One of the tougher interviews I&#8217;ve ever done, actually. I almost felt guilty asking Greg to talk about it. But he insisted that this was something he needed to discuss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Greg revealed a shaken faith in big wave surfing that\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/greg-long-faces-fear-and-beauty-at-the-spot-that-nearly-ended-his-life----cortes-bank-1_106093\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January of 2013, I sat down with a haunted young man to discuss an episode that had almost ended his life. The story of Greg Long&#8217;s near drowning at Cortes Bank a month earlier was fairly well told by that time, but Greg had yet to reveal much about how his drowning and journey [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89973","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=89973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89974,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89973\/revisions\/89974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}