{"id":765,"date":"2018-06-12T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/?p=765"},"modified":"2020-08-28T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:12:14","slug":"special-prayers-for-surfings-king-bunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/special-prayers-for-surfings-king-bunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Prayers for Surfing\u2019s King Bunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charllie Bunger, the world renown King of surfing, is in critical condition at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Long Island. Charlie has been in remission from lymphoma, a cancer of the blood for the past three years. Sunday he somehow ruptured his spleen and had to go in for emergency surgery. He lost almost five liters of blood, which is almost unheard of. If you know Charlie Bunger at all then you know why he is still alive. Charlie is a lion on a surf board and the true heart and soul of the Bunger Surf and Sports shop in Babylon Village. Next to Plessers Electronics, the oldest business in Babylon Village.<\/p>\n<p>The Surfing community worldwide has been calling texting and more importantly praying for Charlie Bunger.<\/p>\n<p>Some people think that I have a special contact in my prayers to God, well I don\u2019t. However if I did in some way then I\u2019m gonna use up a few prayers to ask God to let us keep<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-766\" src=\"http:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2817-e1528812517337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2817-e1528812517337.jpg 633w, https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2817-e1528812517337-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Charllie around for a little while longer. This world is definitely not ready to be without him.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie is a member of the International Surfing Hall of Fame and has proudly represented all fans of surfing in a wonderful and dignified way for over fifty years.<\/p>\n<p>A long time Yankee fan, my father in law actually caught national attention when he dove onto the sacred old Yankee Stadium field chasing a foul ball during the playoffs in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Get well soon King!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charllie Bunger, the world renown King of surfing, is in critical condition at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Long Island. Charlie has been in remission from lymphoma, a cancer of the blood for the past three years. Sunday he somehow ruptured his spleen and had to go in for emergency surgery. He lost almost five &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/special-prayers-for-surfings-king-bunger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Special Prayers for Surfing\u2019s King Bunger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ray-negrons-play-ball-weekly-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}