{"id":1276,"date":"2008-07-24T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2008-07-24T09:20:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:20:54","slug":"garcia-gives-marriage-and-wct-another-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Garcia Gives Marriage (and WCT) Another Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/41192959.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/41192959.jpg','popup','width=500,height=294,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\/41192959-tm.jpg\" height=\"252\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"41192959\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonny Garcia<\/strong>, 38, is out from under house arrest, back on the hunt for a spot on the WCT Tour and getting married for the third time, according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-sp-surfing24-2008jul24,0,726606.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before I went to prison, I made a pact with myself that I would try my hardest to get back on tour and retire on my own note,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To be back, traveling, hanging with my friends, doing what I love to do, is such a relief.&#8221; . . . When I went to prison, I lost all my sponsors,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got some new sponsors that are really good and they&#8217;re not putting any kind of pressure on me to requalify, or even do the tour, for that matter. They really don&#8217;t even care, they just want me to go out and surf and have fun.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After he surfs in the round of 96 at the Go211.com US Open of Surfing he&#8217;s &#8220;scheduled to marry Colleen McCullough in Laguna Beach.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a big week for Sonny. We wish him the best. It&#8217;s not going to be easy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-sp-surfing24-2008jul24,0,726606.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonny Garcia, 38, is out from under house arrest, back on the hunt for a spot on the WCT Tour and getting married for the third time, according to a story in the LA Times. Before I went to prison, I made a pact with myself that I would try my hardest to get back [&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\/1276"}],"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=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}