{"id":91458,"date":"2014-03-07T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T21:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91458"},"modified":"2014-03-07T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T21:45:19","slug":"surfer-dege-oconnell-recalls-the-worst-wipeout-of-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91458","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Dege O\u2019Connell recalls the worst wipeout of his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8216;I looked at my leg and saw muscles flapping around&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Right about the same time southern California was getting rocked by the biggest swell of the year, waves of far more consequence were lashing the boulder-strewn shore of Jaws (aka Pe\u2019ahi) on the North Shore of Maui. Charging headfirst into the 25-foot-plus (Hawaiian-style measurement) surf was a dedicated crew of surfers hell-bent on getting the biggest waves of their lives. Among them was 24-year-old Hana resident Dege O\u2019Connell. Dege, who\u2019s been surfing Jaws for several years now, was on a borrowed 10-foot, 6-inch board and caught exactly one wave that session\u2014and it ended up being the worst wipeout of his life. Here, he dishes on what happened\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/surf\/post\/surfer-dege-oconnell-recalls-the-worst-wipeout-of-his-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and 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>&#8216;I looked at my leg and saw muscles flapping around&#8217; Right about the same time southern California was getting rocked by the biggest swell of the year, waves of far more consequence were lashing the boulder-strewn shore of Jaws (aka Pe\u2019ahi) on the North Shore of Maui. Charging headfirst into the 25-foot-plus (Hawaiian-style measurement) surf [&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-91458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91458","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=91458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91459,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91458\/revisions\/91459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}