{"id":8436,"date":"2009-05-30T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2009-05-30T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:47:25","slug":"bride-and-groom-nearly-swept-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8436","title":{"rendered":"Bride And Groom Nearly Swept Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bride and groom celebrating their marriage in Cornwall England decided to go out for a short surf during their wedding reception at a bar on the beach at Porthtowan, but neither of them were ready for the conditions according to a story from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/cornwall\/8075108.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His wife joined him for a dip and the pair got caught in a rip current. . . Off-duty lifeguards raced to the sea and rescued the bride, who ended up on some rocks, before saving her husband. . . the groom was caught in a really strong rip current and was being dragged around the corner of the headland, which at high tide is &#8220;no-man&#8217;s land&#8221;. . . &#8220;He was in a fair bit of trouble and had also abandoned his board, which was his only flotation device,&#8221; the lifeguard added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It took lifeguards and some other surfers nearly an hour to paddle the groom back to his reception. Hopefully, the couple is a little better at marriage than they are at surfing. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/cornwall\/8075108.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bride and groom celebrating their marriage in Cornwall England decided to go out for a short surf during their wedding reception at a bar on the beach at Porthtowan, but neither of them were ready for the conditions according to a story from the BBC. His wife joined him for a dip and the [&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\/8436"}],"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=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8442,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}