{"id":20245,"date":"2010-12-10T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20245"},"modified":"2010-12-10T09:09:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:09:03","slug":"slate-deifies-kelly-slater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20245","title":{"rendered":"Slate Deifies Kelly Slater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/101208_SNUT_slaterTN.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/101208_SNUT_slaterTN.jpg','popup','width=252,height=195,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\/12\/101208_SNUT_slaterTN-tm.jpg\" height=\"154\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"101208 Snut Slatertn\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2277301\/pagenum\/all\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slate.com&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Matt Feeney<\/strong> has written a surprisingly insightful round up of professional surfing circa December 2010 titled <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2277301\/pagenum\/all\/\" target=\"_blank\">You Should Worship Kelly Slater<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Like almost no surf writer so far Feeney sums up <strong>Andy Irons&#8217; <\/strong>death, <strong>Kelly Slater&#8217;s<\/strong> number 10, and what it means both in and out of the &#8220;insular&#8221; world of surfing. He also has some ideas as to why Kelly isn&#8217;t a bigger mainstream celebrity like, say, <strong>Shaun White<\/strong>. But it is Feeney&#8217;s final paragraph that especially hits home:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So maybe the final limit to Slater&#8217;s fame is that he&#8217;s the dashing and deific king of a sport that is, in the wider world of athletic pursuits, something of a rogue nation. Surfing may seek attention, on occasion, but mainly so that it can invite that wider world to kiss its ass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be sure to read the rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2277301\/pagenum\/all\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slate.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate.com&#8217;s Matt Feeney has written a surprisingly insightful round up of professional surfing circa December 2010 titled You Should Worship Kelly Slater. Like almost no surf writer so far Feeney sums up Andy Irons&#8217; death, Kelly Slater&#8217;s number 10, and what it means both in and out of the &#8220;insular&#8221; world of surfing. He also [&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\/20245"}],"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=20245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20248,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions\/20248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}