{"id":943,"date":"2009-02-09T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T05:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T04:23:22","slug":"surfer-rides-monster-wave-caused-by-british-storm-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Surfer rides monster wave caused by British storm front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-944\" title=\"PD*26771132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/eng-surf-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"PD*26771132\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Sanchis looks like an ant on the face of the 60ft wave at Belharra in the Bay of Biscay.<\/p>\n<p>Frozen in time, the picture shows the lip of the wave lurching forward threatening to crush the Frenchman with hundreds of tons of water.<\/p>\n<p>But the 29-year-old professional surfer managed to avoid wiping-out and could earn a place in the history books for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>The photo has won him a nomination for this year&#8217;s Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards &#8211; a contest normally dominated by locations in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The wave, which breaks over an offshore reef near &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/4563110\/Surfer-rides-monster-wave-caused-by-British-storm-front.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Sanchis looks like an ant on the face of the 60ft wave at Belharra in the Bay of Biscay. Frozen in time, the picture shows the lip of the wave lurching forward threatening to crush the Frenchman with hundreds of tons of water. But the 29-year-old professional surfer managed to avoid wiping-out and could [&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-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}