{"id":601,"date":"2013-01-22T16:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2013-04-02T09:04:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T06:04:22","slug":"rip-carson-bilsland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/rip-carson-bilsland\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Carson Bilsland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-602\" alt=\"Carson-Bilsland\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Carson-Bilsland.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is with deep sorrow that we have just heard about the loss of a friend, Carson Bilsland in the Algerian hostage debacle.<\/p>\n<p>Carson who we knew at first as a freedive student, became an avid freediver and competitor attending our first competition in Cabo San Lucas and several times visitor to our camp in Punta Coyote was a true Gentleman and sportsman.<\/p>\n<p>He became a very dear and valued friend. A man of shinning courage and a gentleness and kindness that extended to our then little 8 year old son to whom he told magical stories and sent childrens books.<\/p>\n<p>Carson was funny and wild and loved by our family, he will be sorely missed I can only with humility offer our heartfelt condolences to his family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-604\" alt=\"Carson-Bilsland_freediving\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Carson-Bilsland_freediving.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Carson-Bilsland_freediving.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Carson-Bilsland_freediving-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with deep sorrow that we have just heard about the loss of a friend, Carson Bilsland in the Algerian hostage debacle. Carson who we knew at first as a freedive student, became an avid freediver and competitor attending our first competition in Cabo San Lucas and several times visitor to our camp in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}