{"id":91285,"date":"2014-03-03T20:59:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91285"},"modified":"2014-03-03T20:59:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:59:48","slug":"surf-video-riding-the-20-mile-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91285","title":{"rendered":"Surf Video &#8211; Riding the 20 MILE wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It may be more than 7,000 miles from Hawaii, and almost 20C colder, but the West Country provided one of the world&#8217;s best waves for surfers today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wearing hooded, full-body wetsuits, a group of surfers took to the River Severn estuary in Newnham, Gloucestershire, to ride one of the world&#8217;s largest tidal surges &#8211; The Seven Bore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The wave, which is caused by changing water levels, travels against the river current at around 13 miles per hour and can sometimes climb to two metres high.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are about six main points along the 20-mile stretch of river where the wave is at its strongest strongest, with dozens of surfers and kayakers racing to meet the wave at each point\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2572109\/Riding-20-MILE-wave-Surfers-pictured-sunrise-cruising-Severn-Bore-massive-tidal-surge-sweeps-inland-river.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FoAen3wkjDs?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>It may be more than 7,000 miles from Hawaii, and almost 20C colder, but the West Country provided one of the world&#8217;s best waves for surfers today. Wearing hooded, full-body wetsuits, a group of surfers took to the River Severn estuary in Newnham, Gloucestershire, to ride one of the world&#8217;s largest tidal surges &#8211; The [&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-91285","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\/91285","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=91285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91286,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91285\/revisions\/91286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}