{"id":2315,"date":"2008-11-02T07:15:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2008-11-03T07:28:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T14:28:43","slug":"old-men-and-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2315","title":{"rendered":"Old Men And The Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/01-seniorsurfers1-medium.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/01-seniorsurfers1-medium.jpg','popup','width=230,height=172,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\/11\/01-seniorsurfers1-medium-tm.jpg\" height=\"149\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"01 Seniorsurfers1 Medium\" \/><\/a><strong>Bob Spellmire<\/strong>, 82, was competing in the <strong>2nd Annual Senior Surfing Olympics<\/strong> in Huntington Beach on Saturday November 1, 2008 when he was hit by a series of waves that knocked him to his back, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/spellmire-beach-surfing-2214035-wave-waves\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Register<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The attempt looked hopeful as he rode the whitewash for a few seconds to shore. But when wave after wave engulfed him and took him under as he lay on his back and tried to hang onto the board, surfer <strong>Mike Downey<\/strong> jumped in to help pull him to safety on the sand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spellmire said he was okay, but &#8220;pooped&#8221; after his adventure and plans to train for next year&#8217;s event. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/spellmire-beach-surfing-2214035-wave-waves\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Register<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Spellmire, 82, was competing in the 2nd Annual Senior Surfing Olympics in Huntington Beach on Saturday November 1, 2008 when he was hit by a series of waves that knocked him to his back, according to a story in the Orange County Register. The attempt looked hopeful as he rode the whitewash for 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\/2315"}],"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=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}