{"id":10571,"date":"2009-09-15T16:12:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T23:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10571"},"modified":"2009-09-15T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T23:16:46","slug":"bede-durbidge-talks-champions-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10571","title":{"rendered":"Bede Durbidge Talks Champions Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/as_surf_bede_200.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/as_surf_bede_200.jpg','popup','width=200,height=275,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/as_surf_bede_200-tm.jpg\" height=\"137\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"As Surf Bede 200\" \/><\/a>After a reportedly top-secret meeting on Sunday (September 13, 2009) in which at least 20 surfers discussed the &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=%22slater+tour%22\" target=\"_blank\">Slater Tour<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; with potential organizers, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/blog?post=4475399\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Micah Abrams<\/strong> caught up with <strong>Bede Durbidge<\/strong> and got his thoughts on the proposed &#8220;champions tour.&#8221; Durbidge seemed optimistic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . maybe no one will even decide to follow this new proposed tour, but it&#8217;s still making everyone think. We can make the sport better. The ASP wants to make the sport better, so maybe they can take the ideas off these other guys and use them. So I think whatever happens, it will be good. It&#8217;s going to be interesting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the link for the entire interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/blog?post=4475399\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a reportedly top-secret meeting on Sunday (September 13, 2009) in which at least 20 surfers discussed the &#8220;Slater Tour&#8221; with potential organizers, ESPN\/Action&#8217;s Micah Abrams caught up with Bede Durbidge and got his thoughts on the proposed &#8220;champions tour.&#8221; Durbidge seemed optimistic: . . . maybe no one will even decide to follow this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}