{"id":16670,"date":"2010-07-07T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T22:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16670"},"modified":"2010-07-07T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T23:03:13","slug":"free-surfing-fiji-begins-july-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16670","title":{"rendered":"Free Surfing Fiji Begins July 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tavarua.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tavarua.jpg','popup','width=835,height=296,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\/07\/tavarua-tm.jpg\" height=\"70\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Tavarua\" \/><\/a>Tomorrow, Friday, July 8, 2010 all surf breaks in Fiji become a free-for-all, according to a decree by Fiji&#8217;s Attorney General <strong>Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum<\/strong> and quoted on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiofiji.com.fj\/fullstory.php?id=29054\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Fiji<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fiji Surfing Association President <strong>John Philip<\/strong> has welcomed the implementation of the Decree Philip says tourists will now be able to surf freely in Fiji and local villages will benefit the most.  . . . \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic news! It\u2019s very positive for the development of surfing in Fiji and especially tourism. It\u2019s great for the people of Fiji \u2013 the beach users and anyone who feels they got ownership in our beaches and clean oceans. As I\u2019ve said the biggest benefit is going to the rural areas \u2013 it will create employment for surfing related industries.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now every boat owner in Fiji can run people out to Cloudbreak and Restaurants. Epic. Finally, Fiji&#8217;s best waves will be as open, and hassle-free as Hawaii . . . cough, cough, cough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiofiji.com.fj\/fullstory.php?id=29054\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Fiji<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, Friday, July 8, 2010 all surf breaks in Fiji become a free-for-all, according to a decree by Fiji&#8217;s Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and quoted on Radio Fiji. Fiji Surfing Association President John Philip has welcomed the implementation of the Decree Philip says tourists will now be able to surf freely in Fiji and local [&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\/16670"}],"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=16670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16677,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670\/revisions\/16677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}