{"id":406064,"date":"2010-03-08T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a915ca17970b"},"modified":"2010-03-08T17:17:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T22:17:58","slug":"statue-of-hermosa-beach-surfing-legend-missing-its-head-time-to-call-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/406064","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Hermosa Beach surfing legend missing its head. Time to call police?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a915df84970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hermosabeach\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a915df84970b image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a915df84970b-800wi\" style=\"width: 563px; height: 443px;\" title=\"Hermosabeach\"><\/img><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Missing: The head of a local surfing icon.<\/p>\n<p>Hermosa Beach officials are looking for the head from a statue of surfer and lifeguard Tim Kelly. <\/p>\n<p>The sculpture stood near the Hermosa Beach Pier for decade, serving as a landmark for beachgoers and those riding along the bike trial.<\/p>\n<p>It was removed a few years ago and replaced with a bronze replica. The original, made of foam and fiberglass, was in storage at the city&#8217;s emergency operations center, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/news\/ci_14527419\">Daily Breeze.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rick Koenig of the Hermosa Beach Historical Society Museum noticed the head was missing recently, but he isn&#8217;t sure whether it was stolen or simply misplaced.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We just want it back, because the statue is pretty much worthless without it,&quot; he told the Breeze.<\/p>\n<p>According to the city, Kelly was a well-known surfer and beachside figure who died in his 20s in a car accident. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: The bronze statue of surfer Tim Kelly that replaced the original, which is made of foam and fiberglass and is now\u00a0missing its head. Credit: Mel Melcon \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing: The head of a local surfing icon. Hermosa Beach officials are looking for the head from a statue of surfer and lifeguard Tim Kelly. The sculpture stood near the Hermosa Beach Pier for decade, serving as a landmark for beachgoers and those riding along the bike trial. It was removed a few years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}