{"id":11305,"date":"2009-10-31T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T23:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11305"},"modified":"2009-10-31T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T23:10:10","slug":"mavericks-opener-gets-surprise-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11305","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Opener Gets Surprise Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, October 30, 2009, organizer and surfers celebrated the opening of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maverickssurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mavericks Surf Contest<\/a><\/strong> with a ceremonial paddle out. While they were out a &#8220;solitary figure appeared our of nowhere, according to a <strong>Bruce Jenkin&#8217;s<\/strong> story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/threedotblog\/detail?blogid=60&amp;entry_id=50711\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Out of the mist,&#8221; as <strong>Evan Slater<\/strong> said with a smile. . . It was <strong>Jeff Clark<\/strong>, cruising in on a stand-up paddle board. Clark may be the center of a highly political squabble behind the scenes, but he wanted to give the event his blessing. He said a few words, provided a much-needed jolt of inspiration and then paddled off. . . . &#8220;It was a great thing,&#8221; said Slater. &#8220;Really eased our minds. We know these past few months have really been hard on Jeff, and it was great to know he&#8217;s behind us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clark is still not done with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maverickssurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mavericks Surf Ventures<\/a><\/strong> (who&#8217;s contest waiting period opens tomorrow). In fact, according to Jenkins he is &#8220;reportedly preparing legal action.&#8221; As we&#8217;ve said before. We&#8217;d back Jeff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/threedotblog\/detail?blogid=60&amp;entry_id=50711\" target=\"_blank\">SF Gate<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, October 30, 2009, organizer and surfers celebrated the opening of the Mavericks Surf Contest with a ceremonial paddle out. While they were out a &#8220;solitary figure appeared our of nowhere, according to a Bruce Jenkin&#8217;s story on SFGate.com. &#8220;Out of the mist,&#8221; as Evan Slater said with a smile. . . It was [&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\/11305"}],"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=11305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11306,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305\/revisions\/11306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}