{"id":10642,"date":"2009-09-18T10:42:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10642"},"modified":"2009-09-18T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:42:49","slug":"nyt-rehashes-slater-tour-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10642","title":{"rendered":"NYT Rehashes Slater Tour Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/surfingA600.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/surfingA600.jpg','popup','width=600,height=360,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\/surfingA600-tm.jpg\" height=\"258\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfinga600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/18\/sports\/18surfing.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> action scribe <strong>Matt Higgins<\/strong> has dropped in on the &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=%22slater+tour%22\" target=\"_blank\">Slater tour<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; story with a round up of whatever everyone else is saying (and we&#8217;ve all heard) spiced up with some quotes from <strong>ESPN&#8217;s Chris Stiepock<\/strong> and <strong>Vans&#8217; Doug Palidini<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s little doubt in most surfers\u2019 minds that Kelly Slater is the best surfer who\u2019s ever lived,\u201d said Doug Palladini, vice president of marketing for Vans and president of the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association, an industry trade group. \u201cSo there\u2019s no doubt he brings massive credibility to anything he wants to be a part of. The fact that he\u2019s allowed his name and his agent to be associated with this has for sure made people sit up and listen more.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For his part Champions Surf Tour&#8217;s <strong>Terry Hardy<\/strong> is keeping his lips zipped. In other words, no news here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/18\/sports\/18surfing.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop-eat-surf.com\/news-item\/1129\/doug-palladini-quoted-in-new-york\" target=\"_blank\">Shop-eat-surf<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times action scribe Matt Higgins has dropped in on the &#8220;Slater tour&#8221; story with a round up of whatever everyone else is saying (and we&#8217;ve all heard) spiced up with some quotes from ESPN&#8217;s Chris Stiepock and Vans&#8217; Doug Palidini. \u201cThere\u2019s little doubt in most surfers\u2019 minds that Kelly Slater is the [&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\/10642"}],"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=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10643,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions\/10643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}