{"id":37498,"date":"2012-11-02T08:27:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T15:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=37498"},"modified":"2012-11-02T09:03:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:03:58","slug":"andy-irons-remembered-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=37498","title":{"rendered":"Andy Irons Remembered Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/59.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/59.jpg','popup','width=800,height=320,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\/11\/59-tm.jpg\" height=\"172\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"59\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was two years ago today (November 2, 2010) that the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19266\" target=\"_blank\">social media world began passing messages<\/a><\/strong> that the unthinkable had happened. Three-time ASP World Champion <strong>Andy Irons<\/strong> had died, alone in a Dallas, Texas hotel room while traveling home to Hawaii from the <strong>Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico<\/strong>. The entire surf world was stunned, shocked, and heartbroken and in many ways we still are today.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Irons touched so many lives in so many different ways. And, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> is working to keep AI&#8217;s memory alive and to support to his widow and son.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Out of respect and acknowledgement of Andy&#8217;s legacy we continue to dedicate the <strong>Billabong Pipe Masters<\/strong> in his memory. . . Billabong is also proud to announce the new global <strong>AI Forever <\/strong>collection for release in Summer 2013 in stores and online March 15, in the USA. Proceeds from the AI Forever line will go toward ongoing guaranteed support for Andy&#8217;s wife Lyndie and young son Axel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s how you take care of family. Nice work, Billabong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was two years ago today (November 2, 2010) that the social media world began passing messages that the unthinkable had happened. Three-time ASP World Champion Andy Irons had died, alone in a Dallas, Texas hotel room while traveling home to Hawaii from the Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico. The entire surf world was [&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":[10,37,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37498"}],"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=37498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37519,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37498\/revisions\/37519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}