{"id":12750,"date":"2023-05-11T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12750"},"modified":"2023-05-15T21:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T21:25:52","slug":"mavericks-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/11\/mavericks-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2023\/05\/08\/mavericks-surfing-contest-acrimony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The famed Mavericks surfing contest drowned in acrimony. Can it be saved?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/les-carpenter\/?itid=ai_top_carpenterl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Les Carpenter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/HEEM5GQPMDFRHXOC72X3TZQZIM_size-normalized.jpg&amp;w=1440&amp;impolicy=high_res\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">On a foggy day on Mavericks Beach, surfers look out over the waves. (Melina Mara\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>HALF MOON BAY, Calif. \u2014 The wave roars like a dozen cannons as it climbs four stories high, casting the few bold enough to surf its crest into a teeming pit of frigid, shark-filled ocean. It costs nothing to paddle the half-mile from Pillar Point through surging sea and up a liquid mountain that has slain two of the most gifted men to ride a surfboard. Daring death has no price tag, even if people keep trying to find one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2023\/05\/08\/mavericks-surfing-contest-acrimony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post The famed Mavericks surfing contest drowned in acrimony. Can it be saved? By\u00a0Les Carpenter HALF MOON BAY, Calif. \u2014 The wave roars like a dozen cannons as it climbs four stories high, casting the few bold enough to surf its crest into a teeming pit of frigid, shark-filled ocean. It costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}