{"id":15902,"date":"2010-05-08T04:43:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T11:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15902"},"modified":"2010-05-08T09:14:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T16:14:05","slug":"noel-robinson-dies-surfing-puerto-escondido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15902","title":{"rendered":"Noel Robinson Dies Surfing Puerto Escondido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/as_surf_noel_630.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/as_surf_noel_630.jpg','popup','width=630,height=458,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\/2010\/05\/as_surf_noel_630-tm.jpg\" height=\"145\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"As Surf Noel 630\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/blog\/_\/post\/5172782\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Jake Howard<\/strong> reported some sad news last night. NorCal big-wave charger and videographer <strong>Noel Robinson<\/strong> died yesterday, May 7, 2010 while surfing in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . this afternoon I received the tragic news that &#8220;Nor Cal&#8221; Noel lost his life today while out surfing Puerto Escondido in Mexico. Reportedly he pulled into a six-footer &#8212; a relatively benign wave by Puerto standards &#8212; and for whatever reason never resurfaced. His body was found an hour later by lifeguards and friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Robinson, who has a long and storied past in surfing, was most recently recognized for shooting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15661\" target=\"_blank\">Grant &#8220;Twiggy&#8221; Baker&#8217;s XXL-winning video<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most difficult tasks a writer ever tackles is a story about the death of a friend, but Jake Howard&#8217;s heartfelt piece eloquently communicates both Noel&#8217;s place in surfing and the feelings of loss felt by everyone who knew him. Noel will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with Noel&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/blog\/_\/post\/5172782\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong> Photo: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.photomurray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Murray<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN&#8217;s Jake Howard reported some sad news last night. NorCal big-wave charger and videographer Noel Robinson died yesterday, May 7, 2010 while surfing in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. . . . this afternoon I received the tragic news that &#8220;Nor Cal&#8221; Noel lost his life today while out surfing Puerto Escondido in Mexico. Reportedly he pulled [&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\/15902"}],"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=15902"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15906,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions\/15906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}