{"id":63765,"date":"2021-07-18T14:54:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T21:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=63765"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T21:42:48","slug":"rip-rick-rockin-fig-fignetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=63765","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Rick \u201cRockin\u2019 Fig\u201d Fignetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63767\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/FIG_lane-450x306.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/FIG_lane-450x306.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/FIG_lane-200x136.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/FIG_lane.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To SoCal surfers of a certain age there was no better sound to hear on a morning drive to Newport or Huntington Beach than <a href=\"https:\/\/rockinfigsurf.com\"><strong>Rockin&#8217; Fig&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> surf report on <strong>KROQ<\/strong>. His reassuring voice let us all know that whatever else was going on in the world, things were going to be much better once we reached the beach.<\/p>\n<p>For decades no Huntington Beach surf event went off without Fig on the mic. His smooth, sing-song vocal stylings came to typify what a surfer sounded like and few who hold a surf mic today would deny the influence Fig had on their announcing style. Sadly, Fignetti died of a heart attack on Friday, July 16, 2021. He was 64 years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laylan Connelly<\/strong> has a great rememberance of Fig in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2021\/07\/17\/rockin-fig-the-voice-of-surfing-and-huntington-beach-surf-shop-owner-dies-at-age-65\/\"><em><strong>Orange County Register<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. We will all miss him greatly. Our thoughts are especially with his girlfriend <strong>Andrea Roberson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2021\/07\/17\/rockin-fig-the-voice-of-surfing-and-huntington-beach-surf-shop-owner-dies-at-age-65\/\">Orange County Register<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To SoCal surfers of a certain age there was no better sound to hear on a morning drive to Newport or Huntington Beach than Rockin&#8217; Fig&#8217;s surf report on KROQ. His reassuring voice let us all know that whatever else was going on in the world, things were going to be much better once we [&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\/63765"}],"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=63765"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63774,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63765\/revisions\/63774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}