{"id":1064,"date":"2008-07-08T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T16:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2008-07-08T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T17:24:42","slug":"cj-hobgoods-thoughts-on-slater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"CJ Hobgood&#8217;s Thoughts On Slater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/slater.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/slater.jpeg','popup','width=550,height=367,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\/2008\/07\/slater-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Slater\" \/><\/a><strong>ASP <\/strong>number six <strong>CJ Hobgood<\/strong> isn&#8217;t saying that no one can stop <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong>. He&#8217;s just saying that it would take something very special, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080708\/SPORTS\/807080335\/1002\/SPORTS\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But Slater can be touched,&#8221; C.J. said. &#8220;It&#8217;s still early and someone can get on a roll like he has. But, like I told him, if someone was to come back, it would be one of the greatest comebacks in surfing history. It&#8217;s really his to lose now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is definitely getting better, but it&#8217;s like in a different sense,&#8221; C.J. said. &#8220;He&#8217;s surfing more like a kid and acting like a grom. He&#8217;s just enjoying himself. You can see it in his interviews. He just has that more-free, more-loose go-for-it attitude. I wouldn&#8217;t know if he&#8217;s actually surfing better than he ever has, but he&#8217;s certainly having more fun.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess that&#8217;s what happens in sports journalism: the rest of the guys get interviewed about the number one guy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080708\/SPORTS\/807080335\/1002\/SPORTS\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASP number six CJ Hobgood isn&#8217;t saying that no one can stop Kelly Slater. He&#8217;s just saying that it would take something very special, according to a story in Florida Today. &#8220;But Slater can be touched,&#8221; C.J. said. &#8220;It&#8217;s still early and someone can get on a roll like he has. But, like I told [&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\/1064"}],"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=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}