{"id":455,"date":"2008-02-20T15:32:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T23:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2008-02-20T15:32:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T23:32:30","slug":"andy-irons-on-the-rocks-at-froggys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Andy Irons On The Rocks At Froggy&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/roxy-web.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/roxy-web.jpg','popup','width=344,height=220,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\/2008\/02\/roxy-web-tm.jpg\" height=\"127\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Roxy Web\" \/><\/a>Apparently, the surf was so big on Wednesday February 20, 2008 at Froggy&#8217;s near Snapper Rocks that three-time World Champion <strong>Andy Irons<\/strong> got &#8220;bashed on the rocks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The three-time world champion had been attempting to paddle out at Froggys, near Snapper Rocks, when a large wave washed him back on to the rocks. . . .This was quickly followed by a second wave, pushing him further into the jagged rocks. . . .Both his arms were cut and his board was in tatters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An onlooker who reportedly spoke to Andy said that he mentioned that he hadn&#8217;t &#8220;been smashed in about five years and was left fairly rattled.&#8221; Then again, this was reported in the Australian press.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2008\/02\/21\/7964_gold-coast-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the surf was so big on Wednesday February 20, 2008 at Froggy&#8217;s near Snapper Rocks that three-time World Champion Andy Irons got &#8220;bashed on the rocks.&#8221; The three-time world champion had been attempting to paddle out at Froggys, near Snapper Rocks, when a large wave washed him back on to the rocks. . . [&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\/455"}],"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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}