{"id":1531,"date":"2008-08-29T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T18:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2008-08-29T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T18:57:43","slug":"lennox-head-still-says-no-to-rip-curl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"Lennox Head Still Says No To Rip Curl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/lennoxweb.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/lennoxweb.jpg','popup','width=344,height=229,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\/08\/lennoxweb-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Lennoxweb\" \/><\/a>In 2010 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripcurl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rip Curl<\/a><\/strong> would like to hold a WCT surf event in Lennox Head, Australia where &#8220;the consistent right-hand point break  is world renowned for quality, big wave,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2008\/08\/30\/15691_gold-coast-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Local surfer <strong>Ed Standfield<\/strong> established the <strong>North East Surfers Alliance<\/strong> early this year in a bid to ban corporate surfing events being hosted at Lennox Head. &#8220;We are being made out as grumpy old men who want the beach for ourselves but that isn&#8217;t the case,&#8221; he said. . . . &#8220;We have had over 700 signatures from local businesses and residents who do not want surf company Rip Curl to hold an international surfing event here in 2010. . . &#8220;Where they want to have the surf competition, at the point, is a nature reserve,&#8221; said Mr Standfield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like the local townsfolk don&#8217;t really care about a $2 million surf contest in their backyard. We can&#8217;t say we blame them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2008\/08\/30\/15691_gold-coast-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010 Rip Curl would like to hold a WCT surf event in Lennox Head, Australia where &#8220;the consistent right-hand point break is world renowned for quality, big wave,&#8221; according to a story on goldcoast.com.au. Local surfer Ed Standfield established the North East Surfers Alliance early this year in a bid to ban corporate surfing [&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\/1531"}],"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=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}