{"id":14629,"date":"2010-03-11T07:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2010-03-11T07:25:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:25:51","slug":"swamis-surf-contest-clears-first-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14629","title":{"rendered":"Swami&#8217;s Surf Contest Clears First Hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/082909_-23.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/082909_-23.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,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\/03\/082909_-23-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"082909  23\" \/><\/a>The city council in Encinitas, California has decided that it will open the world famous Swami&#8217;s for a potential contest even though the locals are all bitter on the idea, according to story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/mar\/11\/council-allows-proposal-for-swamis-surf-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Deigo Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The council voted 3-2 to allow world-renowned surfer <strong>Linda Benson<\/strong> to seek a city permit to hold her four-day women\u2019s longboarding championship at Swami\u2019s in October, as the Parks and Recreation Commission recommended. . . Mayor <strong>Dan Dalager<\/strong>, Councilman <strong>James Bond<\/strong> and Vice Mayor <strong>Maggie Houlihan<\/strong> said the city\u2019s permit process will determine whether Benson\u2019s contest can work at that beach. . . \u201cThat\u2019s what the process is about,\u201d Dalager said. \u201cIt may not get through the process, or it may.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe this will finally open the door for a <strong>Rip Curl Search<\/strong> event in the future. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/mar\/11\/council-allows-proposal-for-swamis-surf-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city council in Encinitas, California has decided that it will open the world famous Swami&#8217;s for a potential contest even though the locals are all bitter on the idea, according to story in the San Deigo Union-Tribune. The council voted 3-2 to allow world-renowned surfer Linda Benson to seek a city permit to hold [&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\/14629"}],"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=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14637,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions\/14637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}