{"id":2808,"date":"2008-11-30T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T22:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2008-11-30T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T22:39:46","slug":"romancing-the-bro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"Romancing The Bro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/450flirting01-janety.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/450flirting01-janety.jpg','popup','width=450,height=338,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\/450flirting01-janety-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"450Flirting01-Janety\" \/><\/a>Romance novelist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/janeporter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Porter<\/a><\/strong> was recently divorced, 40, and on her own in Hawaii when she met Oahu surf school owner <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tygurneysurfschool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ty Gurney<\/a><\/strong>. That meeting became the start for a novel (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0446509434?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0446509434\" target=\"_blank\">Flirting With Forty<\/a><\/strong>), a made-for-TV movie (staring <strong>Heather Locklear<\/strong>), and a child who is due in May.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There was this surfer guy walking by &#8212; oh, my God!&#8221; Porter recalled. &#8220;He was tattooed, with a bulldog just above his board shorts. He was very young. He was incredibly good-looking. He was exactly the kind of person I am not attracted to. I was a little afraid of him.&#8221; . . . Porter had her novel&#8217;s final plot element &#8212; the alluring surfer and the dilemma he would present: &#8220;Should a woman stay on the road previously traveled? Or be brave enough to follow a road not traveled?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, that whole Waikiki beach boy thing still can pay off for everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/books\/389945_flirting01.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Post Intelligencer<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romance novelist Jane Porter was recently divorced, 40, and on her own in Hawaii when she met Oahu surf school owner Ty Gurney. That meeting became the start for a novel (Flirting With Forty), a made-for-TV movie (staring Heather Locklear), and a child who is due in May. &#8220;There was this surfer guy walking by [&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":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808"}],"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=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}