{"id":23731,"date":"2011-06-10T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T20:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23731"},"modified":"2011-06-10T13:37:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T20:37:26","slug":"halifax-surfers-give-oneill-the-booties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23731","title":{"rendered":"Halifax Surfers Give O&#8217;Neill The Booties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oneill_cwc.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oneill_cwc.jpg','popup','width=307,height=258,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\/2011\/06\/oneill_cwc-tm.jpg\" height=\"168\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Oneill Cwc\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing Association of Nova Scotia<\/a><\/strong> was none to happy about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> plans to hold a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneill.com\/cwc\/ONeill_Coldwater_Classic_Series.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cold Water Classic<\/a><\/strong> event in their Halifax waves without consulting them first. Still other locals were upset that the City of Halifax was going to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoast.ca\/RealityBites\/archives\/2011\/05\/25\/surfing-and-the-city-that-never-learns\/\" target=\"_blank\">give O&#8217;Neill a grant of $145,000<\/a><\/strong> toward holding the event. Now, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoast.ca\/RealityBites\/archives\/2011\/06\/10\/breaking-news-oneill-cancels-surf-competition\" target=\"_blank\">The Coast<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, it appears that O&#8217;Neill has decided to pull out. The story quotes O&#8217;Neill as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbcsurf.com\/news_article?news_id=460\" target=\"_blank\">saying the following<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O\u2019Neill regrets to announce the cancellation of the O\u2019Neill CWC Canada for 2011. Extensive consultation and discussion with key event stakeholders, along with a short period to properly prepare for the event, has led to this decision. During preliminary planning it became clear a shorter than usual planning window jeopardized the success of a 2011 CWC in Nova Scotia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For now it appears there will be no Cold Water Classic Canada. For more of the backstory click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoast.ca\/RealityBites\/archives\/2011\/06\/01\/local-surfers-object-to-oneill-cold-water-classic\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoast.ca\/RealityBites\/archives\/2011\/05\/27\/oneill-cold-water-classic-has-some-pretty-classic-problems\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoast.ca\/RealityBites\/archives\/2011\/06\/10\/breaking-news-oneill-cancels-surf-competition\" target=\"_blank\">The Coast<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbcsurf.com\/news_article?news_id=460\" target=\"_blank\">SBC Surf<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/news\/story?id=6649182\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Surfing Association of Nova Scotia was none to happy about O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s plans to hold a Cold Water Classic event in their Halifax waves without consulting them first. Still other locals were upset that the City of Halifax was going to give O&#8217;Neill a grant of $145,000 toward holding the event. Now, according to a [&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\/23731"}],"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=23731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23733,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23731\/revisions\/23733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}