{"id":3169,"date":"2008-12-12T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T00:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2008-12-12T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T01:09:28","slug":"slater-wins-6th-pipeline-masters-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"Slater Wins 6th Pipeline Masters Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/slater.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/slater.jpg','popup','width=605,height=357,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\/12\/slater-tm.jpg\" height=\"253\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Slater\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a battle in the rain as <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Ward<\/strong> sat and surfed in some large and funky Pipeline. But Kelly Slater, riding his 5&#8217;11&#8221; <strong>Al Merrick<\/strong>, did what he always seems to do: he surfed with knowledge, skill, and fluidity and will go home with that <strong>Gerry Lopez<\/strong> trophy board and his 6th Pipeline Masters title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/slater-podium.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/slater-podium.jpg','popup','width=810,height=456,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\/12\/slater-podium-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Slater Podium\" \/><\/a>&#8220;There was no doubt in my mind, this guy is unbelievable. Wardo is one of the best barrel riders in the world,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;He got me out here last year. If he would have let me win last year, maybe he could have gotten this one today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wardo came close, but because of Slater&#8217;s win <strong>Joel Parkinson<\/strong> takes his first <strong>Triple Crown Title<\/strong>. No offense to Wardo, but Parkinson was over ended up runner. &#8220;Andy has taken it away from me twice and today I was thinking this just can&#8217;t happen again,&#8221; Parkinson said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/billabong.wetsand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong Pipeline Masters<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a battle in the rain as Kelly Slater and Chris Ward sat and surfed in some large and funky Pipeline. But Kelly Slater, riding his 5&#8217;11&#8221; Al Merrick, did what he always seems to do: he surfed with knowledge, skill, and fluidity and will go home with that Gerry Lopez trophy board 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\/3169"}],"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=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}