{"id":19564,"date":"2010-11-14T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19564"},"modified":"2010-11-14T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T16:16:22","slug":"rip-andy-irons-1978-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19564","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Andy Irons 1978 &#8211; 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ai_rip.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ai_rip.jpg','popup','width=786,height=322,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\/11\/ai_rip-tm.jpg\" height=\"176\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ai Rip\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thegardenisland.com\/sports\/recreation\/article_af69e2dc-efce-11df-96f4-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\">thousands gather at Pine Trees<\/a><\/strong> on the shore of Kauai&#8217;s Hanalei Bay at 11 AM HST to remember son, brother, husband, and  three-time ASP World Champion, <strong>Andy Irons<\/strong>, our thoughts are with the Irons family; specifically his parents <strong>Phil<\/strong> and <strong>Danielle<\/strong>, brother <strong>Bruce<\/strong>, and pregnant wife <strong>Lyndie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Only parents who have lost a child, and those who have endured the death of an older brother or husband will understand the depth of loss the Irons family has been feeling since learning of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19266\" target=\"_blank\">Andy&#8217;s death on November 2, 2010<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Today will be difficult for everyone. Wherever you are at 11 AM HST, (1 PM PST, 2 PM CST, or 3 PM EST), please stop and take a minute or two to send positive thoughts to the Irons family.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Andy Irons or to remember just a few of the things he added to the world during his short 32 years, click here for <strong>Graham Stapelberg&#8217;s <\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.isurfbecause.com\/andy-irons\/eulogy_to_a_great_waterman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eulogy To A Great Waterman.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color:#1919ff;text-decoration:underline;\"><strong><em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isurfbecause.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Irons Tribute<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as thousands gather at Pine Trees on the shore of Kauai&#8217;s Hanalei Bay at 11 AM HST to remember son, brother, husband, and three-time ASP World Champion, Andy Irons, our thoughts are with the Irons family; specifically his parents Phil and Danielle, brother Bruce, and pregnant wife Lyndie. Only parents who have lost a [&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\/19564"}],"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=19564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19569,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19564\/revisions\/19569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}