{"id":12782,"date":"2009-12-31T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12782"},"modified":"2009-12-31T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:06:16","slug":"surfers-in-the-line-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12782","title":{"rendered":"Surfers In The Line of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfers out at Kauai&#8217;s Targets on Christmas day say they were surfing through a hail of bullets according to a story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kauaiworld.com\/articles\/2009\/12\/31\/news\/kauai_news\/doc4b3c4b680b6cc251280199.txt\" target=\"_blank\">The Garden Isle<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A former professional surfer, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal, said the surf spot known as Targets and Rifle Range is one of the five best waves in the world when it breaks correctly (usually just two to three times a year), and Christmas Day was one of those rare days. . . \u201cThere was [sic] actually bullets flying overhead while we were surfing. Not cool,\u201d he said. . . \u201cIt was downright scary,\u201d said the surfer, who hid behind his board and was able to catch a ride from a friend on a Jet Ski to leave the area he had been surfing some 200 yards offshore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not so strangely officials deny that any shots were fired into the water. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kauaiworld.com\/articles\/2009\/12\/31\/news\/kauai_news\/doc4b3c4b680b6cc251280199.txt\" target=\"_blank\">TheGardenIsle<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfers out at Kauai&#8217;s Targets on Christmas day say they were surfing through a hail of bullets according to a story on The Garden Isle. A former professional surfer, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal, said the surf spot known as Targets and Rifle Range is one of the five [&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\/12782"}],"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=12782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12783,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782\/revisions\/12783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}