{"id":2486,"date":"2008-11-17T04:49:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T12:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2008-11-16T17:55:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T01:55:52","slug":"number-10-in-the-world-no-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2486","title":{"rendered":"Number 10 In The World: No Sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bartels.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bartels.jpeg','popup','width=247,height=358,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\/bartels-tm.jpg\" height=\"289\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bartels\" \/><\/a><strong>Melanie Bartels<\/strong>, 26, is a power surfer in the hunt for a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplecrownofsurfing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Triple Crown<\/a><\/strong> title. Currently she is ranked number 10 in the world, but she had to miss a couple contests this because she had no money to travel. See, she has no sponsors. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My sponsors dropped me last year, so I&#8217;ve been borrowing money from my mom, my friends, just to make things work,&#8221; said Bartels, 26. &#8220;It&#8217;s a bummer. It&#8217;s like the companies all want the younger generation. When you hit my age, that&#8217;s too old already, I guess.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, it could be that Melanie just doesn&#8217;t look enough like a fashion model. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20081116\/SPORTS10\/811160363\/1032\/sportsfront\" target=\"_blank\">Honolulu Advertiser<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Bartels, 26, is a power surfer in the hunt for a Triple Crown title. Currently she is ranked number 10 in the world, but she had to miss a couple contests this because she had no money to travel. See, she has no sponsors. My sponsors dropped me last year, so I&#8217;ve been borrowing [&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\/2486"}],"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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}