{"id":1263,"date":"2008-07-23T09:11:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2008-07-23T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:12:05","slug":"mick-fanning-throws-in-the-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Mick Fanning Throws In The Towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mick-fanning2307.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mick-fanning2307.jpg','popup','width=344,height=243,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\/mick-fanning2307-tm.jpg\" height=\"141\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Mick-Fanning2307\" \/><\/a>After only five events on this year&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspworldtour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ASP WCT Tour<\/a><\/strong> it&#8217;s looking more and more like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=Kelly+Slater\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Slater<\/a><\/strong> has a lock on number 9, number 9, number 9. Even defending world champ <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=Mick+Fanning\" target=\"_blank\">Mick Fanning<\/a><\/strong> is beginning to talk like a beaten man, according to Australia&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2008\/07\/23\/14025_surfing-sport.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I guess it&#8217;s not over till it&#8217;s over, but it&#8217;s like climbing Everest and he&#8217;s halfway up the bloody hill,&#8221; said <strong>Fanning<\/strong>, who would have to win four of the remaining six events to stand a chance of beating &#8216;superman&#8217; Slater. . . Fanning was disgusted at his performance in the final at Jeffreys Bay, knowing he let a prime opportunity to keep the title race alive slip through his fingers. . . &#8220;I surfed like an idiot,&#8221; said Fanning. &#8220;I just had a shocker. I was feeling great. I just couldn&#8217;t stay on my board.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No worries, Mick. You just fell prey to the Slater mind warp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2008\/07\/23\/14025_surfing-sport.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After only five events on this year&#8217;s ASP WCT Tour it&#8217;s looking more and more like Kelly Slater has a lock on number 9, number 9, number 9. Even defending world champ Mick Fanning is beginning to talk like a beaten man, according to Australia&#8217;s Goldcoast.com.au. &#8220;I guess it&#8217;s not over till it&#8217;s over, but [&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\/1263"}],"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=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}