{"id":31025,"date":"2012-06-15T08:29:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31025"},"modified":"2012-06-15T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T22:39:48","slug":"rip-santa-cruzs-jeff-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31025","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Santa Cruz&#8217;s Jeff Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120613_092546_sc061412sbspencer-01_GALLERY.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120613_092546_sc061412sbspencer-01_GALLERY.jpg','popup','width=400,height=295,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\/06\/20120613_092546_sc061412sbspencer-01_GALLERY-tm.jpg\" height=\"147\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20120613 092546 Sc061412Sbspencer-01 Gallery\" \/><\/a>Santa Cruz big wave surfer <strong>Jeff Spencer<\/strong>, 49, was found dead &#8220;near West Cliff Drive&#8221; in Santa Cruz, California on Sunday, June 10, 2012, according to a s tory in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/localnews\/ci_20852475\/standout-1980s-surfer-jeff-spencer-found-dead-santa\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An off-duty San Jose firefighter came upon Spencer near a fence at David Way about 6:10 a.m., and it was unclear how long Spencer had been dead. A coroner&#8217;s autopsy will determine the cause of death later this week. . . Spencer was part of a powerhouse group of Santa Cruz surfers in the 80s that included <strong>Richard Schmidt<\/strong>, <strong>Vince Collier<\/strong> and <strong>Anthony Ruffo<\/strong>. <strong>Melissa Kreger<\/strong>, his common law wife of nearly 20 years, called Spencer her soul mate. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spencer&#8217;s cause of death has not been officially released. Like other Santa Cruz surfers of his generation Spencer&#8217;s life was &#8220;consumed by drug and alcohol abuse,&#8221; according to the story. Our thoughts are with Spencer&#8217;s family and especially Melissa Kreger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link:<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/localnews\/ci_20852475\/standout-1980s-surfer-jeff-spencer-found-dead-santa\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz big wave surfer Jeff Spencer, 49, was found dead &#8220;near West Cliff Drive&#8221; in Santa Cruz, California on Sunday, June 10, 2012, according to a s tory in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. An off-duty San Jose firefighter came upon Spencer near a fence at David Way about 6:10 a.m., and it was unclear [&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\/31025"}],"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=31025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31027,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31025\/revisions\/31027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}