{"id":552,"date":"2008-03-03T08:51:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2008-03-03T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:07:49","slug":"slater-rings-the-over-it-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Slater Rings The Over It Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ripcurlbells.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ripcurlbells.jpg','popup','width=710,height=133,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\/03\/ripcurlbells-tm.jpg\" height=\"80\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ripcurlbells\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a story in Australian&#8217;s <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.theage.com.au\/kelly-slater-drops-out-of-bells-event\/20080303-1wj2.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> has announced that he&#8217;s not going to surf the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripcurl.com\/?id=182,146,0,0,1,0\" target=\"_blank\">Rip Curl Bells event<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The former world No.1 has ruled out competing in the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach later this month, a move which would put his campaign to dethrone Aussie world champion Mick Fanning behind the eight ball.<\/p>\n<p>But Slater&#8217;s frequent talk of missing events is wearing thin on rivals who dismiss his claims as nothing more than gamesmanship. . . . But his fiercest rival, fellow American and former triple world champ Andy Irons, said he&#8217;d take Slater&#8217;s words with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll believe it when the first heat goes out &#8230; until then I&#8217;ll believe he&#8217;s in every event,&#8221; Irons said after his easy round three win over American Ben Bourgeois.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So will we.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.theage.com.au\/kelly-slater-drops-out-of-bells-event\/20080303-1wj2.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in Australian&#8217;s The Age Kelly Slater has announced that he&#8217;s not going to surf the Rip Curl Bells event. The former world No.1 has ruled out competing in the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach later this month, a move which would put his campaign to dethrone Aussie world champion Mick [&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\/552"}],"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=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}