{"id":246128,"date":"2026-04-01T03:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246128\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:26:12","slug":"astonishing-video-catches-windsurfer-crash-into-gray-whale-in-calif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246128\/","title":{"rendered":"Astonishing video catches windsurfer crash into gray whale in Calif."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWild video shows the moment the windsurfer crashes right into a gray whale as it surfaces directly into his path. The man topples off the board, and the sail collapses into the water, while the whale disappears back into the bay.The windsurfer appears stunned but unharmed by the incident.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSAN FRANCISCO \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Wild video shows the moment the windsurfer crashes right into a gray whale as it surfaces directly into his path. <\/p>\n<p>The man topples off the board, and the sail collapses into the water, while the whale disappears back into the bay.<\/p>\n<p>The windsurfer appears stunned but unharmed by the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild video shows the moment the windsurfer crashes right into a gray whale as it surfaces directly into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[110044,1581,2969,65172,4456,1555,16145,25059,14691,101,1914,103,102,104,106,105,646,32348,110043],"class_list":["post-246128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-astonishing-video","tag-board","tag-calif","tag-gray-whale","tag-incident","tag-man","tag-moment","tag-path","tag-sail","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-bay","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-water","tag-wild-video","tag-windsurfer-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}