{"id":2008,"date":"2008-10-03T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2008-10-03T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:50:25","slug":"number-9-number-9-number-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2008","title":{"rendered":"Number 9, Number 9, Number 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/kelly-champ.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/kelly-champ.jpg','popup','width=622,height=384,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\/10\/kelly-champ-tm.jpg\" height=\"265\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Kelly Champ\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> and everyone else has denied it over the past two years, we lovebelieving the rumor that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong> is going to give Kelly a $10 million bonus if he wins a 10th ASP world title<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Slater showed no signs of pressure in the world title deciding heat, tactical as ever against local Basque surfer <strong>Eneko Acero<\/strong> (EUK) winning the round three <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabongpro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong Pro Mundaka<\/a><\/strong> heat to once again rewrite the sports history books. . . . Thirty-one year old Acero opened quickly for an early heat lead in the 1.5 metre (4-6ft) river-mouth waves before a relaxed Slater took control midway and claimed his ninth crown with the heat win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that he&#8217;s slayed number 9, number 10 doesn&#8217;t seem like all that big of a hurdle. And yeah, we have no problem saying that. It&#8217;s all going to depend on whether Kelly wants it or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabongpro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong Pro<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Kelly Slater and everyone else has denied it over the past two years, we lovebelieving the rumor that Quiksilver is going to give Kelly a $10 million bonus if he wins a 10th ASP world title Slater showed no signs of pressure in the world title deciding heat, tactical as ever against local Basque [&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\/2008"}],"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=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}