{"id":26054,"date":"2011-10-20T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26054"},"modified":"2011-10-21T03:21:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T10:21:06","slug":"kelly-slaters-board-in-the-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26054","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Slater&#8217;s Board In The Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Board_560.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Board_560.jpg','popup','width=560,height=260,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\/10\/Board_560-tm.jpg\" height=\"92\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Board 560\" \/><\/a><strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> has reportedly donated the board he surfed on at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/live.ripcurl.com\/?bells2011\" target=\"_blank\">2011 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach<\/a><\/strong> to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of American History<\/a><\/strong>, according to a post on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.quiksilver.com\/surf_blog\/champion-kelly-slater-donates-winning-surfboard-to-national-museum-of-american-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain and Wave<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The surfboard, made of white fiberglass and sporting a blue wave design covered with sponsor stickers throughout, is currently on view in the museum\u2019s first-floor Artifact Walls. It has a rubber pad at the back of the board for traction and three removable fins along the bottom. . . \u201cOver the past 20 years, his approach to surfing as a professional and dedicated philanthropist has changed how people surf and view the sport,\u201d said <strong>Jane Rogers<\/strong>, curator, at the museum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That means in a way both <strong>Al Merrick<\/strong> and <strong>Jake Burto<\/strong>n are in that museum as well. It&#8217;s a Smithsonian trifecta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.quiksilver.com\/surf_blog\/champion-kelly-slater-donates-winning-surfboard-to-national-museum-of-american-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mountain and Wave<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/kelly-322849-slater-making.html\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Slater has reportedly donated the board he surfed on at the 2011 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach to the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of American History, according to a post on the Mountain and Wave. The surfboard, made of white fiberglass and sporting a blue wave design covered with sponsor stickers throughout, is currently on [&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\/26054"}],"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=26054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26065,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26054\/revisions\/26065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}