{"id":7077,"date":"2009-04-01T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7077"},"modified":"2009-04-01T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T19:01:25","slug":"kim-fly-bradley-dies-in-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7077","title":{"rendered":"Kim &#8220;Fly&#8221; Bradley Dies In Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bradley2.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bradley2.jpeg','popup','width=186,height=270,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\/2009\/04\/bradley2-tm.jpg\" height=\"145\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bradley2\" \/><\/a>Australian surfing pioneer <strong>Kim Bradley<\/strong>, who died on March 26, 2009, was found by his family two days later in &#8220;his favourite room in the house he built overlooking Kuta beach,&#8221; according to an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/4-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5g46IJoBtL6hDHvI6uqF5EkUkHzBQ&amp;cid=1324255008&amp;ei=5ajTSe32H4rGMs31oN4I&amp;usg=AFQjCNE5SiiG6T_15E0zvQDg_zY5MGoRXw\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>news story. He was 54 years old.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a 2007 interview with &#8220;Surfer&#8217;s Path&#8221; magazine, Bradley recalled the excitement of exploring Bali&#8217;s huge offshore breaks with a small group of other surfers. . . &#8220;We had to work it out for ourselves&#8230; there&#8217;s like 26 breaks or something on the Bukit Peninsula now, but when I came we knew of two,&#8221; he was quoted as saying. . . &#8220;Paddling out at 12 foot (four metres) Nusa Dua by yourself&#8230; even at eight foot it&#8217;s pretty scary. . . &#8220;You&#8217;re looking out there and it&#8217;s 10-12 foot but it&#8217;s too good to resist so I&#8217;d say a quiet word to myself and my master: &#8216;Well if it&#8217;s today, it&#8217;s a good day to die.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5g46IJoBtL6hDHvI6uqF5EkUkHzBQ\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian surfing pioneer Kim Bradley, who died on March 26, 2009, was found by his family two days later in &#8220;his favourite room in the house he built overlooking Kuta beach,&#8221; according to an AFP news story. He was 54 years old. In a 2007 interview with &#8220;Surfer&#8217;s Path&#8221; magazine, Bradley recalled the excitement of [&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\/7077"}],"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=7077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7078,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions\/7078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}