{"id":15282,"date":"2010-04-05T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15282"},"modified":"2010-04-05T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:46:09","slug":"bullabunga-aussie-surfer-to-join-pbr-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15282","title":{"rendered":"Bullabunga: Aussie Surfer To Join PBR Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/r542541_3160772.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/r542541_3160772.jpg','popup','width=285,height=190,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\/04\/r542541_3160772-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"R542541 3160772\" \/><\/a><strong>Sullivan McLeod<\/strong>, the 33-year-old author from Margaret River, Australia who wrote <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1741757134?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1741757134\" target=\"_blank\">Tunnel Vision: The true story of my probably insane quest to become a professional surfer<\/a><\/em><\/strong> plans to move to California and join the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbrnow.com\/competition\/TPD\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professional Bull Riding Tour Touring Pro Division<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/04\/03\/2863682.htm?section=justin\" target=\"_blank\">ABC.net.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m planning just to capture a piece of the world which is the bull riding in America. I think it must be an amazing subculture,&#8221; he said. . . McLeod&#8217;s first experience on a bull was two-and-a-half months ago, and he says he stayed on for a couple of seconds. . .  &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a mental thing. If you&#8217;re prepared to really put yourself on and learn and try and stick on, you might get fairly good at it,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that he&#8217;s only ridden a bull once hasn&#8217;t seemed to slow him down. It seems that McLeod has found the perfect occupation for an Australian: cluelessly dive headfirst into something without a clue and then spray about it for years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[LInk: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/04\/03\/2863682.htm?section=justin\" target=\"_blank\">ABC.net.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sullivan McLeod, the 33-year-old author from Margaret River, Australia who wrote Tunnel Vision: The true story of my probably insane quest to become a professional surfer plans to move to California and join the Professional Bull Riding Tour Touring Pro Division, according to a story on ABC.net.au. &#8220;I&#8217;m planning just to capture a piece of [&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":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15282"}],"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=15282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15284,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15282\/revisions\/15284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}