{"id":4467,"date":"2009-01-23T07:16:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2009-01-23T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:19:41","slug":"the-nyt-loves-the-wolf-pak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4467","title":{"rendered":"The NYT Loves The Wolf Pak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/23surfing2-600.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/23surfing2-600.jpg','popup','width=600,height=331,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\/23surfing2-600-tm.jpg\" height=\"237\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"23Surfing2 600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/23\/sports\/othersports\/23surfing.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong> Hawai&#8217;i specialist <strong>Matt Higgins<\/strong> turns in another story on how a group of tough surfers control the waves on Hawai&#8217;i&#8217;s North Shore with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kalaalexander.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kala Alexander<\/a><\/strong> as the center piece. Surprise!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They are known as the Wolfpak or simply \u201cthe boys.\u201d They use fear and their fists to command respect in the surf along the North Shore of Oahu, a seven-mile stretch of some of the world\u2019s most renowned waves. At the celebrated Banzai Pipeline, they determine which waves go to whom, and punish those who breach their code of respect for local residents and the waves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While there is nothing new in this story it may help build more subscribers to Kala&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kalaalexander.com\/nsignup.php\" target=\"_blank\">E-Newsletter<\/a><\/strong> and possibly create more interest in the soon-to-be-launched <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kalaalexander.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wolf Pak fan club<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/23\/sports\/othersports\/23surfing.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Hawai&#8217;i specialist Matt Higgins turns in another story on how a group of tough surfers control the waves on Hawai&#8217;i&#8217;s North Shore with Kala Alexander as the center piece. Surprise! They are known as the Wolfpak or simply \u201cthe boys.\u201d They use fear and their fists to command respect in the [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467"}],"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=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}