{"id":1887,"date":"2008-09-19T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T17:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2008-09-19T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T19:32:22","slug":"its-don-montgomery-day-in-pacifica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Don Montgomery Day In Pacifica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080919-124628-don-and-jim-v-300.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080919-124628-don-and-jim-v-300.jpg','popup','width=300,height=199,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\/2008\/09\/20080919-124628-don-and-jim-v-300-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20080919 124628 Don-And-Jim-V 300\" \/><\/a>Maverick&#8217;s surf photographer <strong>Don Montgomery<\/strong> has left his hometown of Pacifica and moved to the Sierra near the town of Placerville, but his friends wanted to give him a proper send off party.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His buddy and business partner <strong>Eric W. Nelson<\/strong>, a big wave documentarian and videographer who produces all of the Maverick&#8217;s video films (also the first person to shoot Maverick&#8217;s from the water on a surfboard), was behind the party. Eric told Montgomery in advance there was going to be just a little farewell get together. What Nelson did not tell his friend is that Mayor <strong>Jim Vreeland<\/strong> would be on hand to officially proclaim the day the &#8220;Don Montgomery Day.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Montgomery&#8217;s early photographs of Maverick&#8217;s stunned the world when they were first published in <strong>Surfer<\/strong> magazine in 1987. In 2007 his photo of <strong>Shane Desmond<\/strong> at Maverick&#8217;s won the surfer the award for largest paddle-in wave. A lot of surfers are going to miss Don, especially when they&#8217;re throwing their asses on the line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificatribune.com\/ci_10500472?source=most_viewed\" target=\"_blank\">Pacifica Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maverick&#8217;s surf photographer Don Montgomery has left his hometown of Pacifica and moved to the Sierra near the town of Placerville, but his friends wanted to give him a proper send off party. His buddy and business partner Eric W. Nelson, a big wave documentarian and videographer who produces all of the Maverick&#8217;s video films [&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\/1887"}],"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=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}