{"id":43976,"date":"2013-11-03T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43976"},"modified":"2013-11-04T10:08:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:08:25","slug":"rip-hawaiian-legend-buttons-kaluhiokalani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43976","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Hawaiian Legend Buttons Kaluhiokalani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/history_1-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/history_1-1.jpg','popup','width=300,height=236,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\/2013\/11\/history_1-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"157\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"History 1-1\" \/><\/a>Surfing lost one of its most its most influential surfers on Saturday, November 2, 2013 when Hawaiian legend <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/buttonssurfschool.com\/history\" target=\"_blank\">Buttons Kaluhiokalani<\/a><\/strong> died in California after a long battle with lung cancer, according to the blog on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/buttonssurfschool.com\/blog\/surfing-world-loses-hawaiian-legend-buttons-kaluhiokalani\" target=\"_blank\">Buttons Surf School<\/a><\/strong>. He was 55.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Buttons Kaluhiokalani was a former Hawaiian Pro Surfer and is well known for his radical and stylish surfing. In 1973, at the age of 13, Buttons traveled to the US Championships in Malibu, California, as an amateur, where he placed second. Seven years later, Buttons won the Sunkist Open at Malibu. . . During the 70\u2032s Buttons really perfected the progressive style of surfing he is so well known for. Uncle Eddie Rothman calls him \u201cthe Innovator of Modern Day Surfing.\u201d Buttons was the first to perform a carving 360 on film. A true Style Master, Buttons is renowned for his pocket surfing, switch foot and skateboard inspired maneuvers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with the Kaluhlokalani family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/buttonssurfschool.com\/blog\/surfing-world-loses-hawaiian-legend-buttons-kaluhiokalani\" target=\"_blank\">Buttons Surf School<\/a><\/strong><strong> &#38; <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfermag.com\/features\/rip-buttons-kaluhiokalani\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfer Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"451\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ijIDEULGJu8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing lost one of its most its most influential surfers on Saturday, November 2, 2013 when Hawaiian legend Buttons Kaluhiokalani died in California after a long battle with lung cancer, according to the blog on the Buttons Surf School. He was 55. Buttons Kaluhiokalani was a former Hawaiian Pro Surfer and is well known for [&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":[6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43976"}],"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=43976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44010,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43976\/revisions\/44010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}