{"id":10440,"date":"2009-09-10T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10440"},"modified":"2009-09-10T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:40:36","slug":"former-surfer-found-dead-in-florida-inlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10440","title":{"rendered":"Former Surfer Found Dead In Florida Inlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/image_8638168.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/image_8638168.jpg','popup','width=170,height=250,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/image_8638168-tm.jpg\" height=\"147\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Image 8638168\" \/><\/a><strong>Michael Ray Bowe<\/strong>, 60, a homeless man and former noted East Coast surfer was pulled lifeless from the Lake Worth Inlet, Florida themorning of September 9, 2009, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/localnews\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2009\/09\/09\/0909inletbody.html?imw=Y\" target=\"_blank\">Palm Beach Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mike Bowe was a very good hot dogger. He was considered one of the top five local surfers in the &#8217;60s,&#8221; said Fred Salmon, head of the Palm Beach County Surfing History Project. . . The U.S. Coast Guard found 60-year-old Michael Ray Bowe near Peanut Island after local boaters called authorities. .  . Growing up in the 1960s, Bowe surfed on a longboard around Riviera Beach, Salmon said. He competed and won surfing events up and down the East Coast. But Salmon said Bowe&#8217;s life took a turn after he got into a car accident on Interstate 95, and he had struggled with drugs and alcohol for the rest of his life after it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his friends and family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/localnews\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2009\/09\/09\/0909inletbody.html?imw=Y\" target=\"_blank\">Palm Beach Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Ray Bowe, 60, a homeless man and former noted East Coast surfer was pulled lifeless from the Lake Worth Inlet, Florida themorning of September 9, 2009, according to a story in the Palm Beach Post. &#8220;Mike Bowe was a very good hot dogger. He was considered one of the top five local surfers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10441,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440\/revisions\/10441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}