{"id":13891,"date":"2010-02-10T21:21:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T05:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13891"},"modified":"2010-02-10T21:22:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T05:22:25","slug":"mavericks-contest-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13891","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Contest This Saturday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mavs.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mavs.jpg','popup','width=599,height=387,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\/2010\/02\/mavs-tm.jpg\" height=\"129\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Mavs\" \/><\/a>Tomorrow at noon the votes from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maverickssurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mavericks Surf Contest<\/a><\/strong> invitees will apparently decide whether or not the contest will run this Saturday, February 13, 2010, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14377794?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A poll of voters who have been poring over computer-model data suggests there is little doubt that the seventh big-wave champion will be crowned Saturday on the beach at Pillar Point. Waves measuring 40 feet on the face \u2014 considered the threshold for a big Mavericks day \u2014 are expected. . . &#8220;Ninety-nine percent,&#8221; is how longtime contestant <strong>Evan Slater <\/strong>described the chances for Saturday, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to be picture perfect, but it&#8217;s going to be big, real big if the forecast holds.&#8221; . . Santa Cruz&#8217;s <strong>Zach Wormhoudt<\/strong>, another longtime competitor, was just as confident, saying: &#8220;Let&#8217;s get ready to rumble.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears the organizers&#8217; talks about how important this whole event is to their sponsors are finally paying off. This should be good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14377794?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maverickssurf.com\/buzz\/photos22.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mavericks Surf<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow at noon the votes from the Mavericks Surf Contest invitees will apparently decide whether or not the contest will run this Saturday, February 13, 2010, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News. A poll of voters who have been poring over computer-model data suggests there is little doubt that the seventh [&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\/13891"}],"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=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13894,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions\/13894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}