{"id":5987,"date":"2009-03-03T07:49:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T15:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2009-03-03T07:49:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T15:49:59","slug":"kelly-slater-statue-needs-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5987","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Slater Statue Needs Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/slater-statue.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/slater-statue.jpeg','popup','width=550,height=307,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\/03\/slater-statue-tm.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Slater Statue\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think a guy who wanted to create &#8220;a landmark statue&#8221; of <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> for Cocoa Beach would have thought a little about funding it before getting started. Not <strong>Sam Drazich<\/strong>. According to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20090303\/SPORTS01\/903030328\/1002\/SPORTS\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Today<\/a><\/strong> the statue is going to cost $100,000 and Sam has raised nothing so far.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I guess we&#8217;ve probably raised about 30 or 40 bucks,&#8221; laughed Drazich, a weekend surfer whose family grew up in the city. &#8220;I&#8217;m just hoping someone is going to come through, big. The next stage will probably require a loan.&#8221;. . . At 6 tonight at Rusty&#8217;s Seafood Restaurant at Port Canaveral, a fund-raiser will take place, with free hors d&#8217;oeuvres, drink specials, entertainment and surf art by Bruce Reynolds, who will donate part of his sales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone, please help Sam out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20090303\/SPORTS01\/903030328\/1002\/SPORTS\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think a guy who wanted to create &#8220;a landmark statue&#8221; of Kelly Slater for Cocoa Beach would have thought a little about funding it before getting started. Not Sam Drazich. According to a story on Florida Today the statue is going to cost $100,000 and Sam has raised nothing so far. &#8220;I guess we&#8217;ve [&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\/5987"}],"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=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}