{"id":736,"date":"2008-04-20T13:38:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T21:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2008-04-20T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T21:49:10","slug":"woody-brown-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Woody Brown Dies At 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/bilde-1.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/bilde-1.jpeg','popup','width=100,height=150,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\/04\/bilde-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bilde-1\" \/><\/a>The surfing community lost one of its most OG members when <strong>Parker &#8220;Woody&#8221; Brown<\/strong> died Wednesday, April 16, 2008 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halemakua.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hale Makua<\/a><\/strong>, Kahului, Hawaii. He was 96.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Woody Brown was one of the first and greatest icons in the history of surfing,&#8221; state Sen. Fred Hemmings said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was the essential surfer, an iconoclast: extremely independent, futuristic and, most especially, healthy &#8212; which explains why he lived for 96 very productive, wonderful years,&#8221; said Hemmings, the 1968 world surfing champion who inaugurated the world professional surfing circuit in 1975. &#8220;&#8230; I only hope more of us who call ourselves surfers can live the way Woody lived.<\/p>\n<p>Woody Brown is survived by his wife, Macrene; three sons, Woody Brown Jr., William Parker Brown and Jeffrey Sellon; two daughters, Mary Sue Gannon and Jennifer Snyder; and 10 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He will be missed, but his legacy will live on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080420\/OBITS01\/804200350\/1187\/LOCALNEWSFRONT\" target=\"_blank\">Honolulu Advertiser<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surfing community lost one of its most OG members when Parker &#8220;Woody&#8221; Brown died Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Hale Makua, Kahului, Hawaii. He was 96. &#8220;Woody Brown was one of the first and greatest icons in the history of surfing,&#8221; state Sen. Fred Hemmings said Friday. &#8220;He was the essential surfer, an iconoclast: extremely [&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\/736"}],"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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}