{"id":47628,"date":"2015-01-08T17:24:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T01:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=47628"},"modified":"2015-01-08T17:47:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T01:47:58","slug":"esm-photographer-joe-mcgovern-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=47628","title":{"rendered":"ESM Photographer Joe McGovern Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/B9315791645Z.1_20150108154801_000_GM39KDVTM.1-0.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/B9315791645Z.1_20150108154801_000_GM39KDVTM.1-0.jpg','popup','width=534,height=401,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\/2015\/01\/B9315791645Z.1_20150108154801_000_GM39KDVTM.1-0-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"B9315791645Z.1 20150108154801 000 Gm39Kdvtm.1-0\" \/><\/a><strong>Joe McGovern<\/strong>, a long-time photographer for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.easternsurf.com\">Eastern Surf Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> died almost a week after being pulled unconscious from the ocean at Paradise Beach Park on Sunday, January 4, 2015 according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/local\/2015\/01\/08\/celebrated-photographer-dies-weekend-surfing-accident\/21456615\/\">Florida Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. McGovern was 64.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He died Wednesday [January 7, 2014] at <strong>Holmes Regional Medical Center<\/strong> in Melbourne surrounded by family and friends. The Providence, Rhode Island native is survived by his wife, three daughters, mother, brother and other family members. . . &#8220;It&#8217;s a total shock,&#8221; said <strong>Dick &#8220;Mez&#8221; Meseroll<\/strong>, the co-owner of the magazine who worked with McGovern to cover surfing and some of the sport&#8217;s top events. McGovern was enjoying his annual trip to Brevard to enjoy the warm surf when the accident happened, Meseroll said. . . &#8220;He was extremely fit and was once a lifeguard. It sounds like he took a bad fall in the waves. I saw him a few hours before. He came to my house, dropped his bags and the next thing I know I got a call about the accident. I can tell you that a lot of people are shedding tears,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McGovern never regained consciousness. Our thoughts are with McGoverns friends, family, and the entire <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.easternsurf.com\/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;view=item&amp;id=1816:rip-joe-mcgovern&amp;Itemid=111\">ESM<\/a><\/strong> family. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.easternsurf.com\/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;view=item&amp;id=1816:rip-joe-mcgovern&amp;Itemid=111\">Click here for ESM&#8217;s Joe McGovern memorial page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/local\/2015\/01\/08\/celebrated-photographer-dies-weekend-surfing-accident\/21456615\/\">Florida Today<\/a><\/strong> &#38; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.easternsurf.com\/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;view=item&amp;id=1816:rip-joe-mcgovern&amp;Itemid=111\">ESM<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe McGovern, a long-time photographer for Eastern Surf Magazine died almost a week after being pulled unconscious from the ocean at Paradise Beach Park on Sunday, January 4, 2015 according to a story in Florida Today. McGovern was 64. He died Wednesday [January 7, 2014] at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne surrounded by family [&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":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47628"}],"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=47628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47632,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47628\/revisions\/47632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}