{"id":6001,"date":"2009-03-04T06:36:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2009-03-04T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T20:23:21","slug":"surfer-up-for-uk-feature-writer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6001","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Up For UK Feature Writer Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/coversn2e150x230jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/coversn2e150x230jpg.jpeg','popup','width=150,height=230,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\/coversn2e150x230-tm.jpg\" height=\"153\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Coversn2E150X230.Jpg\" \/><\/a>British surfer and freelance writer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/alexwade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Wade<\/a><\/strong>, the author of the book <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surf.uk.com\/acatalog\/surfnation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Surf Nation<\/a><\/strong>, has been nominated for the UK&#8217;s &#8220;Sports Journalists&#8217; Association Sports Feature Writer of the Year award&#8221; according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscornwall.co.uk\/homepagenews\/Surfer-stoked-nominated-sports-journalist-award\/article-743913-detail\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">This Is Cornwall<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alex, who was shortlisted for three stories, two on surfing and one on boxing, says he was &#8216;stoked&#8217; to be nominated. . . &#8220;I&#8217;d forgotten all about the awards, and didn&#8217;t for a moment think I&#8217;d be nominated,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But it&#8217;s also true to say that this year there were a record number of entries for the awards, owing to the number of staff journos having been laid off thanks to the credit crunch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wade is up for a national writing award and the local paper still puts his stoked in quotes. . . classic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscornwall.co.uk\/homepagenews\/Surfer-stoked-nominated-sports-journalist-award\/article-743913-detail\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">This Is Cornwall<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British surfer and freelance writer Alex Wade, the author of the book Surf Nation, has been nominated for the UK&#8217;s &#8220;Sports Journalists&#8217; Association Sports Feature Writer of the Year award&#8221; according to a story in This Is Cornwall. Alex, who was shortlisted for three stories, two on surfing and one on boxing, says he was [&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":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001"}],"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=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6033,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions\/6033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}