{"id":3646,"date":"2010-02-14T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2010-02-14T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T18:32:07","slug":"huge_waves_at_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3646","title":{"rendered":"Huge Waves at Mavericks Injure Spectators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2010\/02\/14\/MNTA1C1AAA.DTL\">Demian Bulwa<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Super Bowl of Surfing lived up to its legend Saturday, and then some. The waves at Mavericks were so massive &#8211; the biggest in the history of surf contests, some said &#8211; that they caused collateral damage on the sidelines.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nLong before South African Chris Bertish tamed a pair of monster swells to win the $50,000 first prize at the seventh Mavericks Surf Contest north of Half Moon Bay, a series of waves crashed into some of the thousands of fans who had flocked to the beach to try to see the action.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nJust after 9 a.m. near Pillar Point, 13 people were injured and at least 40 people were knocked off their feet, officials said. Many of them had been standing on a short concrete wall and were thrown into rocks or mud by a surge of water.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nA stage set up for an award ceremony toppled, while sound equipment meant for a beach broadcast was swamped.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2010\/02\/14\/MNTA1C1AAA.DTL\">Demian Bulwa<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Super Bowl of Surfing lived up to its legend Saturday, and then some. The waves at Mavericks were so massive &#8211; the biggest in the history of surf contests, some said &#8211; that they caused collateral damage on the sidelines.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nLong before South African Chris Bertish tamed a pair of monster swells to win the $50,000 first prize at the seventh Mavericks Surf Contest north of Half Moon Bay, a series of waves crashed into some of the thousands of fans who had flocked to the beach to try to see the action.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nJust after 9 a.m. near Pillar Point, 13 people were injured and at least 40 people were knocked off their feet, officials said. Many of them had been standing on a short concrete wall and were thrown into rocks or mud by a surge of water.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nA stage set up for an award ceremony toppled, while sound equipment meant for a beach broadcast was swamped.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,19,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}