{"id":1957,"date":"2008-09-29T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2008-09-29T09:04:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:04:49","slug":"prattes-artificial-reef-getting-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"Pratte&#8217;s Artificial Reef Getting Pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea was to use sandbags placed in a &#8220;V&#8221;  to &#8220;generate waves in a once-popular spot north of El Segundo&#8217;s [California] Grand Avenue,&#8221; but now the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfrider.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfrider Foundation<\/a><\/strong> says there is no reason to keep the reef up because it just never worked the way they&#8217;d hoped it would.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t effectively get our surf back,&#8221; Surfrider Environmental Director <strong>Chad Nelsen<\/strong> said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been eight years, almost nine (since the reef was constructed), and it didn&#8217;t meet performance standards. We want to act responsibly. We don&#8217;t want these big pieces of plastic affecting the marine environment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was a nice try. Thanks for cleaning up after yourselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/california\/ci_10586139?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea was to use sandbags placed in a &#8220;V&#8221; to &#8220;generate waves in a once-popular spot north of El Segundo&#8217;s [California] Grand Avenue,&#8221; but now the Surfrider Foundation says there is no reason to keep the reef up because it just never worked the way they&#8217;d hoped it would. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t effectively get our [&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\/1957"}],"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=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}