{"id":106,"date":"2007-12-22T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2007-12-22T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T17:20:33","slug":"australias-surfing-mums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Surfing Mums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/surfing-mums-wideweb-470x3140.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/surfing-mums-wideweb-470x3140.jpg','popup','width=470,height=314,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\/2007\/12\/surfing-mums-wideweb-470x3140-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfing Mums Wideweb  470X314,0\" \/><\/a>For couples who surf, having children can really get in the way of time in the water. This is especially true for moms. That&#8217;s why <strong>Vanessa Thompson<\/strong>, an Australian woman, co-founded &#8220;Surfing Mums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Surfing Mums started with two mums who just wanted to go for a surf,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Mums are committed to a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week job. There is no time to surf before a job or after. They can&#8217;t jump in for a quick surf while the baby is asleep or sneak off while they are playing contentedly on the sand. . . . &#8220;They need other surfing mums who understand their needs as a surfer and as a mum.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now the moms trade up watching the kids and get much more time in the water. It&#8217;s probably time for a similar set up in SoCal. Anyone want to get this started?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/kids-in-safe-hands-as-mums-catch-a-break\/2007\/12\/22\/1198175406103.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For couples who surf, having children can really get in the way of time in the water. This is especially true for moms. That&#8217;s why Vanessa Thompson, an Australian woman, co-founded &#8220;Surfing Mums.&#8221; &#8220;Surfing Mums started with two mums who just wanted to go for a surf,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Mums are committed to a 24-hour-a-day, [&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\/106"}],"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=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}