{"id":22341,"date":"2011-03-20T20:09:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T03:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22341"},"modified":"2011-03-21T11:08:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T18:08:48","slug":"panama-surfer-sets-dumb-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22341","title":{"rendered":"Panama Surfer Sets Dumb World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1-gary-saavedra-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1-gary-saavedra-1.jpg','popup','width=610,height=348,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\/2011\/03\/1-gary-saavedra-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"114\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"- 1 Gary Saavedra-1\" \/><\/a>Panamanian surfer <strong>Gary Saavedra<\/strong> reportedly just broke two <strong>Guinness World Record<\/strong> for standing behind a boat on a surfboard for three hours 55 minutes on Saturday, March 19, 2011, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsroompanama.com\/panama\/2521-panama-surfer-makes-world-records-on-lake-gatun.html\" target=\"_blank\">Newsroom Panama<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saavedra, holder of 13 Panama surfing titles surfed for three hours 55 minutes over a distance of 41.3 miles on waves created by a power boar. Both achievements qualify as world records for surfing behind a static wave and were witnessed by representatives of  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Guinness Book of World Records<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We just waiting for the Red Bull extreme documentary coverage of this epic event. Got a great title idea: <em>Standing Behind A Boat<\/em>. Follow the jump to watch the video of Gary doing just that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsroompanama.com\/panama\/2521-panama-surfer-makes-world-records-on-lake-gatun.html\" target=\"_blank\">Newsroom Panama<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dGdRhjt5EYk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Video link via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petethomasoutdoors.com\/2011\/03\/surfer-makes-history-with-41-mile-ride-in-panama-canal.html\">Pete Thomas Outdoors<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panamanian surfer Gary Saavedra reportedly just broke two Guinness World Record for standing behind a boat on a surfboard for three hours 55 minutes on Saturday, March 19, 2011, according to a story on Newsroom Panama. Saavedra, holder of 13 Panama surfing titles surfed for three hours 55 minutes over a distance of 41.3 miles [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22373,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341\/revisions\/22373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}