{"id":9373,"date":"2009-07-24T15:42:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T22:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9373"},"modified":"2009-07-25T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T16:19:25","slug":"body-surfer-dies-at-the-wedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9373","title":{"rendered":"Body Surfer Dies At The Wedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newport Beach, California&#8217;s The Wedge was going off today as a massive swell hit southern California. Sadly, an earlier tip to Boardistan has been confirmed by the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/07\/body-surfer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. A body surfer, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,534782,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Monte Kevin Valantin<\/a><\/strong>, 50, of Lawndale died after being thrown against the rocks around noon today July 24, 2009.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The body surfer. . . was taken to Hoag Memorial Hospital about noon in grave condition, said <strong>Jennifer Schulz<\/strong>, a spokeswoman for the Newport Beach Fire Department. . . Wedge veterans have left the beach with concussions, fractured vertebrae and broken bones. The waves ricochet off the rocky jetty at the tip of Balboa Peninsula, smashing together in white-frosted peaks that can tower 20 feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/07\/body-surfer.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newport Beach, California&#8217;s The Wedge was going off today as a massive swell hit southern California. Sadly, an earlier tip to Boardistan has been confirmed by the Los Angeles Times. A body surfer, Monte Kevin Valantin, 50, of Lawndale died after being thrown against the rocks around noon today July 24, 2009. The body surfer. [&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\/9373"}],"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=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}