{"id":137,"date":"2005-12-25T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/?p=137"},"modified":"2005-12-25T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-25T14:15:00","slug":"137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(read the post before this one first)<br \/>[continued]<\/p>\n<p>The waves were huge!<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people hundreds of photographers News crews and probably 200<br \/>surfers were at Swamis in Cardiff, CA last Wednesday if you hadn&#8217;t heard-<br \/>It was crazy, being a surfer myself, it was a rush just watching from the<br \/>bluff. When I first got there it looked big, 12 foot sets were rolling in<br \/>and I thought about cruising out because I had been surfing before when<br \/>it was 12 to 15 feet one time before under more reasonable conditions with<br \/>a channel and warmer water. Then I saw a 20 foot set come through and that <br \/>sealed the deal- there was no way I was going out- as fun as it was and as<br \/>crazy as I may have thought I was, I thought to myself-you could seriously <br \/>die out there! I watched from the bluff as life guard jet skis towed out<br \/>surfers who were getting pounded by the big waves- it was an amazing day<br \/>to watch and it felt like a big day in Hawaii!!!<\/p>\n<p>A number of surfers caught the waves of there life that day I&#8217;m sure-<\/p>\n<p>Crazy enough, my brother Jaime Chambers reporter and Surf reporter on the KTLA News felt the pressure to uphold his surf reporter rep and paddled out up north<br \/>where it was at least 12 to 15 feet! his camera crew was there and he dropped<br \/>in on a couple of huge waves that they got on tape! (I&#8217;ll try and put a video<br \/>clip up of the footage soon) He got two huge waves and on his 3rd wave he <br \/>banged himself up and has a cut and bruise on his nose- he was alright and<br \/>did a cool surf report right after talking about the waves-<\/p>\n<p>They aired his waves on KTLA later that night!<\/p>\n<p>(continued scroll up!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(read the post before this one first)[continued] The waves were huge! Thousands of people hundreds of photographers News crews and probably 200surfers were at Swamis in Cardiff, CA last Wednesday if you hadn&#8217;t heard-It was crazy, being a surfer myself, it was a rush just watching from thebluff. When I first got there it looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williechambers.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}