{"id":2776,"date":"2007-10-22T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T22:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/10\/22\/14\/51\/surfs-up\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T06:10:03","slug":"point-break-flame-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/10\/22\/14\/51\/point-break-flame-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Break Flame On"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/california\/la-me-surfers22oct22,1,2823032.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&amp;ctrack=1&amp;cset=true\">The hills above them were burning, but it was the surfers who were stoked Sunday in Malibu. Waves were breaking perfectly at the famed Surfrider Beach &#8230; The closure of Pacific Coast Highway through the fire zone kept most outsiders off the beach. Locals were kept away by the evacuation order &#8230; Fire engines raced past with sirens screaming, and helicopters swooped low overhead on water-dropping runs. Embers rained down on the beach to the east, and a thick layer of brown smoke cloaked the seaward horizon. &#8220;They were over there hosing down the Malibu Pier. The market down the road is on fire. It&#8217;s like a Hollywood set around here. This is totally not real,&#8221; said surfer Ozstar Dejourday, 50, of La Jolla. &#8220;But the fire is not chasing us out. The waves are just getting better and better&#8221;.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hills above them were burning, but it was the surfers who were stoked Sunday in Malibu. Waves were breaking perfectly at the famed Surfrider Beach &#8230; The closure of Pacific Coast Highway through&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,170,169,165,167,166,171,172,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fires","category-la","category-los-angeles","category-malibu","category-socal","category-southern-california","category-surf","category-surfing","category-wildfire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}