{"id":555,"date":"2008-03-03T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2008-03-03T09:07:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:07:41","slug":"parsons-has-portfolios-job-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Parsons Has Portfolio&#8217;s Job Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/jow-surfer-large.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/jow-surfer-large.jpg','popup','width=372,height=226,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\/jow-surfer-large-tm.jpg\" height=\"261\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Jow-Surfer-Large\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/careers\/job-of-the-week\/2008\/03\/03\/Big-Wave-Surfer-Mike-Parsons\" target=\"_blank\">Cond&#233; Nast&#8217;s Portfolio.com<\/a><\/strong> was looking for cool job of the week they went straight to <strong>Mike Parsons<\/strong> and his job of &#8220;Professional Big Wave Surfer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the best job in the world, for sure,&#8221; says the 43-year-old surfing legend. &#8220;Surfing big waves is the ultimate challenge for a waterman and surfer. When you&#8217;re doing it, you can&#8217;t think about anything else, you&#8217;re so involved in the elements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parsons spends his days trying to find the biggest waves in the world, traveling to them, and attempting to ride them. Recently, he may have scored a place in the record books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t even mention that he is also one of the best surf contest commentators in the business. Maybe that&#8217;s next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/careers\/job-of-the-week\/2008\/03\/03\/Big-Wave-Surfer-Mike-Parsons\" target=\"_blank\">Portfolio.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Cond&#233; Nast&#8217;s Portfolio.com was looking for cool job of the week they went straight to Mike Parsons and his job of &#8220;Professional Big Wave Surfer.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s the best job in the world, for sure,&#8221; says the 43-year-old surfing legend. &#8220;Surfing big waves is the ultimate challenge for a waterman and surfer. When you&#8217;re doing [&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\/555"}],"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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}