{"id":39541,"date":"2013-01-21T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39541"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:49:25","slug":"peter-mel-wins-mavericks-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39541","title":{"rendered":"Peter Mel Wins Mavericks Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mel_mavericks.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mel_mavericks.jpg','popup','width=960,height=651,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\/2013\/01\/mel_mavericks-tm.jpg\" height=\"291\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Mel Mavericks\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/sports\/jenkins\/article\/Peter-Mel-wins-Mavericks-surfing-contest-4210216.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong> Bruce Jenkins <\/strong>said in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/sports\/jenkins\/article\/Peter-Mel-wins-Mavericks-surfing-contest-4210216.php\" target=\"_blank\">his story<\/a><\/strong>, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t the greatest Mavericks surf contest ever held, but it will rank among the most memorable.&#8221; While it got off to a rough start with few to no ridable waves and some upset surfers, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mavericksinvitational.com\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Mavericks Invitational<\/a><\/strong> finished well for <strong>Peter Mel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Mel was announced the winner of Sunday&#8217;s event, held in powerful but inconsistent waves up to 30 feet, it was a cherished moment for anyone familiar with the spot&#8217;s colorful history. He&#8217;s 43 now, with a 9-to-5 job that takes him away from his beloved Santa Cruz, and he had bitter memories about the contest now known as the Mavericks Invitational.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The final results looked like this: 1. <strong>Peter Mel<\/strong>, 2. <strong>Zach Wormhoudt<\/strong>, 3. <strong>Greg Long<\/strong>, 4. <strong>Alex Martins<\/strong>, 5. <strong>Mark Healey<\/strong>, 6. <strong>Shawn Dollar<\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/sports\/jenkins\/article\/Peter-Mel-wins-Mavericks-surfing-contest-4210216.php\" target=\"_blank\">Click the link<\/a><\/strong> for the details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/sports\/jenkins\/article\/Peter-Mel-wins-Mavericks-surfing-contest-4210216.php\" target=\"_blank\">SF Chronicle<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s Bruce Jenkins said in his story, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t the greatest Mavericks surf contest ever held, but it will rank among the most memorable.&#8221; While it got off to a rough start with few to no ridable waves and some upset surfers, the 2013 Mavericks Invitational finished well for Peter Mel. [&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\/39541"}],"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=39541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39545,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39541\/revisions\/39545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}