{"id":13914,"date":"2010-02-11T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13914"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:13:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:13:49","slug":"fanning-offers-obama-surf-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13914","title":{"rendered":"Fanning Offers Obama Surf Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hurleypro09a_-126.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hurleypro09a_-126.jpg','popup','width=664,height=1000,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\/hurleypro09a_-126-tm.jpg\" height=\"301\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Hurleypro09A  126\" \/><\/a><strong>ASP<\/strong> World Champion <strong>Mick Fanning<\/strong> has offered <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> a surf lesson if The President should visit Tweed Australia, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweednews.com.au\/story\/2010\/02\/12\/boss-invites-barack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tweed Daily News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve actually seen photos of him on the net standing up on a surfboard so there\u2019s probably some basic knowledge there we could build on,\u201d Fanning told the Tweed Daily News. \u201cIf he\u2019s able to get to his feet okay I\u2019d probably try and get him doing a couple of turns, maybe even get him working on an air-reverse or a rodeo flip.\u201d. . .  \u201cI\u2019d like to meet the most powerful man in the world, plus he seems like decent bloke,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would be really interesting to get an insight into what his life is like now he\u2019s the president. . . \u201cI\u2019d have so many questions for him, so hopefully there would be plenty of time between sets.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess it wouldn&#8217;t be the first time an Australian tried to give a Hawai&#8217;ian some surf lessons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweednews.com.au\/story\/2010\/02\/12\/boss-invites-barack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tweed Daily News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASP World Champion Mick Fanning has offered Barack Obama a surf lesson if The President should visit Tweed Australia, according to a story in the Tweed Daily News. \u201cI\u2019ve actually seen photos of him on the net standing up on a surfboard so there\u2019s probably some basic knowledge there we could build on,\u201d Fanning told [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914"}],"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=13914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13916,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914\/revisions\/13916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}