{"id":51579,"date":"2017-09-06T13:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=51579"},"modified":"2017-09-06T13:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:49:30","slug":"junior-pro-surfer-dies-in-barbados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=51579","title":{"rendered":"Junior Pro Surfer Dies In Barbados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-51580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/01-14355151_1187836174607259_2712592891438741756_n-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/01-14355151_1187836174607259_2712592891438741756_n-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/01-14355151_1187836174607259_2712592891438741756_n-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/01-14355151_1187836174607259_2712592891438741756_n.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Zander Venezia<\/strong>, a 16-year-old junior pro surfer from Bridgetown, Barbados died while surfing on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 in some &#8220;heavy waves&#8221; on the east coast of Barbados, according to a story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/zander-venezia-16-dies-in-a-hospital-after-a-treacherous-session-on-barbados-east-coast-heavy-surf-claims-the-_149165\/\"><strong>Surfline.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;After getting his fair share of big barrels all morning, the 16-year-old got caught by a closeout set, which drove him into the shallow, rocky bottom. Bleeding and unresponsive, he was pulled out of the water by <strong>Nathan Florence<\/strong>, who was among a cadre of pros who flew over to Barbados to catch the mega-swell currently being generated by Hurricane Irma.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the story Venezia may have broken his neck. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/zander-venezia-16-dies-in-a-hospital-after-a-treacherous-session-on-barbados-east-coast-heavy-surf-claims-the-_149165\/\">Surfline<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zander Venezia, a 16-year-old junior pro surfer from Bridgetown, Barbados died while surfing on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 in some &#8220;heavy waves&#8221; on the east coast of Barbados, according to a story on Surfline.com. &#8220;After getting his fair share of big barrels all morning, the 16-year-old got caught by a closeout set, which drove him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/51579"}],"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=51579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51581,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579\/revisions\/51581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}