{"id":30328,"date":"2012-04-30T07:50:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30328"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:03:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:03:44","slug":"santa-cruz-celebrates-surfing-preserve-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30328","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz Celebrates Surfing Preserve Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/chumash_sc.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/chumash_sc.jpg','popup','width=398,height=259,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\/2012\/04\/chumash_sc-tm.jpg\" height=\"130\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Chumash Sc\" \/><\/a>Santa Cruz, California became the fourth surfing reserve in the world in February 2011, but on April 28, 2012 the city&#8217;s Parks Department held a celebration of the reserve, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_20504354\/save-waves-santa-cruz-honored-one-four-surfing\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The title was bestowed upon the small town of Santa Cruz, whose cultural identity is largely wrapped around surfing, by the nonprofit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethewaves.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Waves Coalition<\/a><\/strong>. . . &#8220;It&#8217;s not only about protecting these good waves,&#8221; said five-time Mavericks surfer Ryan Seelbach, who is also a board member of Save the Waves. &#8220;It&#8217;s more about galvanizing the community to respect the area, ensure beach access and say &#8216;no&#8217; to development.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The surfing reserve extends seven miles along the Santa Cruz coast from Natural Bridges State beach to Opal Cliffs. Nice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_20504354\/save-waves-santa-cruz-honored-one-four-surfing\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz, California became the fourth surfing reserve in the world in February 2011, but on April 28, 2012 the city&#8217;s Parks Department held a celebration of the reserve, according to a story in the Mercury News. The title was bestowed upon the small town of Santa Cruz, whose cultural identity is largely wrapped around [&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\/30328"}],"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=30328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30330,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328\/revisions\/30330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}