{"id":8266,"date":"2009-05-21T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T23:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8266"},"modified":"2009-05-21T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T23:25:00","slug":"surfing-pastor-breaks-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8266","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Pastor Breaks Neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/brogger.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/brogger.jpg','popup','width=488,height=329,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\/05\/brogger-tm.jpg\" height=\"134\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Brogger\" \/><\/a><strong>Clarke Brogger<\/strong>, the pastor of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagunachurchbythesea.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Church by the Sea<\/a><\/strong> in Laguna Beach, California thought it would be cool to try to catch a tiny wave while surfing at Thalia Street. Moments later he had a cracked open head and a broken neck, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/clarke-wave-hospital-2419834-beach-family\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Helplessly paralyzed, Brogger agonized with the realization that he couldn&#8217;t swim, scream or even thrash in panic.<br \/>\n&#8220;I was absolutely frightened, completely out of my mind,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I just kept picturing my wife and two daughters looking down on me, in the grave.&#8221; . . . Then, just as suddenly as his fall, came Brogger&#8217;s &#8220;miracle&#8221;: another wave, splashing over his immobile body, provided just enough tidal force to flip him on his back. Overwhelmed, Brogger screamed for help. . .At first, his friends thought it was part of the joke. Then, fellow surfer Austin Cooper noticed blood gushing from his friend&#8217;s forehead. . . &#8220;It looked like (Cooper) wanted to barf but didn&#8217;t want me to know he was afraid,&#8221; Brogger said with a laugh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the tweet <strong>Ian Cairns<\/strong> says he will fully recover, but it is one more reminder for all of us to be careful out there.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/clarke-wave-hospital-2419834-beach-family\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KangaCairns\" target=\"_blank\">@KangaCairns<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarke Brogger, the pastor of Church by the Sea in Laguna Beach, California thought it would be cool to try to catch a tiny wave while surfing at Thalia Street. Moments later he had a cracked open head and a broken neck, according to a story in the OC Register. Helplessly paralyzed, Brogger agonized with [&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\/8266"}],"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=8266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8269,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions\/8269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}