{"id":19741,"date":"2010-11-18T09:13:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19741"},"modified":"2010-11-18T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:23:10","slug":"the-perfect-slater-sports-illustrated-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19741","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Slater Sports Illustrated Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/7s3e.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/7s3e.jpg','popup','width=484,height=640,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\/11\/7s3e-tm.jpg\" height=\"264\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"7S3E\" \/><\/a>A shockingly well-done version of the cover of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has been making the rounds today. It features <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> winning his Perfect 10 in Puerto Rico with the words &#8220;The World&#8217;s Most Dominant Surfer and The Amazing Story of Why it Took So Long To Feature Him On Our Cover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And there is more: the issue also reportedly features a story on <strong>Andy Irons<\/strong> titled &#8220;Farewell To A Legend,&#8221; a piece on the History of Surfing &#8220;from Duke to Kalohe,&#8221; and a story on the women of surfing and &#8220;why they rock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, through surf jaded eyes, it almost looks real\u2014especially for those who still read print. But with a closer look it becomes obvious that even <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>  would never run an &#8220;Ultimate Surfing Issue&#8221; because the truth is, the jocks just don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shockingly well-done version of the cover of Sports Illustrated has been making the rounds today. It features Kelly Slater winning his Perfect 10 in Puerto Rico with the words &#8220;The World&#8217;s Most Dominant Surfer and The Amazing Story of Why it Took So Long To Feature Him On Our Cover.&#8221; And there is more: [&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\/19741"}],"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=19741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19748,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19741\/revisions\/19748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}