{"id":2444,"date":"2008-11-12T12:12:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T20:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2008-11-12T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T21:13:15","slug":"sunny-garcia-drops-in-on-the-triple-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2444","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Garcia Drops In On The Triple Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/garcia-s0275usopen06rowland-n1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/garcia-s0275usopen06rowland-n1.jpg','popup','width=505,height=337,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\/garcia-s0275usopen06rowland-n1-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Garcia S0275Usopen06Rowland N1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday <strong>Sunny Garcia<\/strong>, 38, told the <strong>LA Times<\/strong> that he is under no pressure on his <strong>Triple Crown<\/strong> hunt to get back on the WCT tour.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I look at it this way. I&#8217;m 38 and these guys are 19, 20,&#8221; he said in an interview Tuesday. &#8220;They&#8217;re at the beginning of their careers and I&#8217;m at the end. I got no pressure. . . &#8220;I&#8217;m having fun,&#8221; he said. &#8220;For me, this is what I love to do. I love competing, I love to surf. I&#8217;m here to have fun. I&#8217;ve got nothing to prove.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The LA Times&#8217; Pete Thomas doesn&#8217;t believe him. &#8220;It&#8217;s the right outlook to take into the Triple Crown, but deep down Garcia probably has plenty to prove &#8212; to himself.&#8221; We wish Sunny the best. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplecrownofsurfing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Reef Pro at Haleiwa<\/a><\/strong> could start tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/outposts\/2008\/11\/sunny-garcia-at.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday Sunny Garcia, 38, told the LA Times that he is under no pressure on his Triple Crown hunt to get back on the WCT tour. I look at it this way. I&#8217;m 38 and these guys are 19, 20,&#8221; he said in an interview Tuesday. &#8220;They&#8217;re at the beginning of their careers and [&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\/2444"}],"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=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}