{"id":2389,"date":"2008-11-07T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2008-11-07T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T18:34:06","slug":"slater-surfs-at-home-for-skin-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2389","title":{"rendered":"Slater Surfs At Home For Skin Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ssi-flyer.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ssi-flyer.jpg','popup','width=299,height=500,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\/11\/ssi-flyer-tm.jpg\" height=\"334\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ssi Flyer\" \/><\/a>Today, the world&#8217;s best surfer will be competing at home in Coca Beach, Florida. <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> will compete in $10,000 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbsworks.com\/SSI\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sean and Skippy Slater Invitational<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Slater will be among 36 surfers &#8212; and 24 longboarders &#8212; in his brothers&#8217; benefit to raise money for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldskincancerfoundation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Skin Cancer Foundation<\/a><\/strong>, a benefit created four years ago by his good friend, <strong>Drew Filliben<\/strong>, and Slater&#8217;s family. . . .&#8221;It was Drew&#8217;s idea,&#8221; Slater said. &#8220;He&#8217;s part of our family. We&#8217;ve been worried about his situation for 18 years or longer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dermatologists will be on site on Saturday giving free cancer-cell screenings on the beach and there will reportedly be some &#8220;micro beer tasting&#8221; and a two-day street skating and BMX content in the parking lot of the Hilton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20081106\/SPORTS01\/811060333\/1002\/SPORTS\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the world&#8217;s best surfer will be competing at home in Coca Beach, Florida. Kelly Slater will compete in $10,000 Sean and Skippy Slater Invitational. Slater will be among 36 surfers &#8212; and 24 longboarders &#8212; in his brothers&#8217; benefit to raise money for the World Skin Cancer Foundation, a benefit created four years ago [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389"}],"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=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}