{"id":4155,"date":"2009-01-16T08:49:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T16:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2009-01-16T09:04:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T17:04:01","slug":"crazy-great-lake-surfers-in-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4155","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Great Lake Surfers In NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/26221377.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/26221377.jpg','popup','width=600,height=372,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\/2009\/01\/26221377-tm.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"26221377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same old story but we fall for it every time (especially when it&#8217;s in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/16\/travel\/escapes\/16superior.html?ref=travel\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>): the world&#8217;s most core surfers hit the icy waves of Lake Superior and make anyone who has ever complained about surfing in a wetsuit feel like complete, whinging pussies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was a Sunday morning north of Duluth, Minn., and a blizzard had overtaken the region. The surfers \u2014 apparitions in black neoprene, floating in mist far offshore \u2014 paddled and stood when a wave began to break. . . . \u201cIt\u2019s warmer in the water,\u201d said Markus Barsch, 21, a tree trimmer from Ashland, Wis., and one of a dozen surfers who had shown up to shred on a 20-degree day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, we&#8217;re all really inspired here in Sunny SoCal. But we always have one question after reading these stories: if you&#8217;re that serious about surfing, why not move to Hawai&#8217;i?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/16\/travel\/escapes\/16superior.html?ref=travel\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the same old story but we fall for it every time (especially when it&#8217;s in the New York Times): the world&#8217;s most core surfers hit the icy waves of Lake Superior and make anyone who has ever complained about surfing in a wetsuit feel like complete, whinging pussies. It was a Sunday morning north [&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\/4155"}],"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=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}