{"id":17540,"date":"2010-08-31T11:09:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17540"},"modified":"2010-08-31T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T19:41:14","slug":"cardiff-kook-makes-the-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17540","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff Kook Makes The Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1-AX009_Kook_G_20100830184951.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1-AX009_Kook_G_20100830184951.jpg','popup','width=553,height=369,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\/08\/P1-AX009_Kook_G_20100830184951-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"P1-Ax009 Kook G 20100830184951\" \/><\/a>Cardiff California&#8217;s &#8220;Cardiff Kook&#8221; is making world headlines as the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703369704575462022661106574.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong> Conor Dougherty<\/strong> reports on the awkward statue and the pranksters who have made ridiculing it an art form.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, Mr. Hardtke topped his wave with a new piece: Just before dawn on July 24, he and a dozen friends carried the 15-foot shark\u2014crafted out of papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 over a wooden frame\u2014a few blocks to the beach, installing it in just 15 minutes. Those were merely the final moments of a two-week project for Mr. Hardtke, who guesses he spent roughly $450 building the shark. . . Police have mostly ignored pranksters like Mr. Hardtke, and local officials have quietly praised the various Kook-inspired works because they bring attention to their tiny beach town. In fact, Mr. Hardtke recently learned the city has been storing his wave sculpture inside at a dusty warehouse that belongs to Paul Ecke Ranch, a grower of poinsettias and other flowers in Encinitas, Calif., the city which surrounds the community of Cardiff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another example of how surfers will make use of anything that moves them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703369704575462022661106574.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff California&#8217;s &#8220;Cardiff Kook&#8221; is making world headlines as the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Conor Dougherty reports on the awkward statue and the pranksters who have made ridiculing it an art form. Recently, Mr. Hardtke topped his wave with a new piece: Just before dawn on July 24, he and a dozen friends carried the 15-foot [&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\/17540"}],"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=17540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17542,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions\/17542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}