{"id":63194,"date":"2020-11-19T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=63194"},"modified":"2020-11-19T10:48:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:48:37","slug":"a-paddle-out-for-michael-tomson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=63194","title":{"rendered":"A Paddle Out For Michael Tomson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mtomson_paddleS7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mtomson_paddleS7.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mtomson_paddleS7-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, November 14, 2020 a solid crew of surf world dignitaries, friends, and family gathered at Agate Street in Laguna Beach, California to celebrate the life of <strong>Gotcha<\/strong>&nbsp;co-founder and creative genius <strong>Michael Tomson<\/strong>. Tomson, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/michael-tomson-rip\/99737\"><strong>died from throat cancer<\/strong><\/a> on October 8, 2020, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/beachgrit.com\/2020\/10\/long-read-michael-tomson-from-cocaine-and-surfing-a-love-story-by-chas-smith-i-can-hear-a-whistling-in-his-nose-where-a-septum-once-was\/\">will be remembered for his hard charging<\/a><\/strong>, no apologies, grip on life in general and surfing style in particular. For more images of the paddle out from photographer &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackenglish.com\"><strong>Jack English<\/strong><\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/seaofseven.com\/blogs\/news\/photos-from-the-michael-tomson-memorial-paddle-out\"><strong>click the link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/seaofseven.com\/blogs\/news\/photos-from-the-michael-tomson-memorial-paddle-out\">Sea of Seven<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, November 14, 2020 a solid crew of surf world dignitaries, friends, and family gathered at Agate Street in Laguna Beach, California to celebrate the life of Gotcha&nbsp;co-founder and creative genius Michael Tomson. Tomson, who died from throat cancer on October 8, 2020, will be remembered for his hard charging, no apologies, grip on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/63194"}],"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=63194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63198,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63194\/revisions\/63198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}