{"id":51456,"date":"2017-06-05T08:24:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T15:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=51456"},"modified":"2017-06-05T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T15:24:37","slug":"nixons-greek-surf-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=51456","title":{"rendered":"Nixon&#8217;s Greek Surf Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/220285343?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To anyone who&#8217;s&nbsp;spent a day staring out the window of a <strong>Minoan Line<\/strong> ferry&nbsp;looking for surf in the Agean Sea&nbsp;this vid will seem like fiction. Yes, we spotted wave with potential off the coast of Delos, one fall during a storm, but nothing like what&nbsp;<strong>Nixon<\/strong> surfers <strong>Marlon Lipke<\/strong>, <strong>Yannick De Jager<\/strong> and <strong>Gony Zubizarreta<\/strong> found on this trip.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chances to score are always very low considering the consistency of swells and the difficulty to predict conditions. Timing is key, local connexions are priceless. All they needed was a call: a friend and local shaper guaranteed them that the conditions displayed on the weather forecast would turn the coast into an idyllic playground, and it did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess so. This whole edit was snagged in one day, and when the day was done, so was the surf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To anyone who&#8217;s&nbsp;spent a day staring out the window of a Minoan Line ferry&nbsp;looking for surf in the Agean Sea&nbsp;this vid will seem like fiction. Yes, we spotted wave with potential off the coast of Delos, one fall during a storm, but nothing like what&nbsp;Nixon surfers Marlon Lipke, Yannick De Jager and Gony Zubizarreta found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51456"}],"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=51456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51457,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51456\/revisions\/51457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}