{"id":29710,"date":"2012-04-05T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T18:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29710"},"modified":"2012-04-05T11:12:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T18:12:55","slug":"surfings-michael-peterson-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29710","title":{"rendered":"Surfing&#8217;s Michael Peterson Laid To Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mp_funeral.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mp_funeral.jpg','popup','width=335,height=222,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\/2012\/04\/mp_funeral-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Mp Funeral\" \/><\/a>Friends and family gathered at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweedheadscrem.com.au\/driver.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Tweed Heads Crematorium<\/a><\/strong> today (April 5, 2012) for the funeral of Australian surfing legend <strong>Michael &#8220;MP&#8221; Peterson<\/strong> who <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29497\" target=\"_blank\">died of a heart attack on March 29, 2012<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/local\/stories\/2012\/04\/05\/3471937.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Gold Coast<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was a colourful congregation as MP&#8217;s mum, <strong>Joan Peterson<\/strong>, asked that everyone wore t-shirts, board shorts and thongs. . . Tributes from the international surfing community immediately flowed after the announcement of his death. . . Former world champion Mick Fanning, who grew up surfing the Coolangatta breaks as MP did, tweeted that MP was the &#8216;Original Coolangatta Kid.&#8217; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many of the surfers who admired him most were contesting the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/live.ripcurl.com\/?bells2012\" target=\"_blank\">Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach<\/a><\/strong> during the gathering, however, they were all there in spirit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/local\/stories\/2012\/04\/05\/3471937.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Gold Coast<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family gathered at the Tweed Heads Crematorium today (April 5, 2012) for the funeral of Australian surfing legend Michael &#8220;MP&#8221; Peterson who died of a heart attack on March 29, 2012, according to a story on ABC Gold Coast. It was a colourful congregation as MP&#8217;s mum, Joan Peterson, asked that everyone wore [&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\/29710"}],"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=29710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29712,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29710\/revisions\/29712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}