{"id":7264,"date":"2009-04-08T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2009-04-08T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:26:22","slug":"surfers-village-finally-does-something-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7264","title":{"rendered":"Surfer&#8217;s Village Finally Does Something Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/surfing-year-book-cover185jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/surfing-year-book-cover185jpg.jpeg','popup','width=182,height=195,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\/04\/surfing-year-book-cover185-tm.jpg\" height=\"214\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfing-Year-Book-Cover185.Jpg\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfersvillage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfersvillage<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsurfnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Surf News<\/a><\/strong> have always bummed us out a little. Their &#8220;we post everything and don&#8217;t care who we steal it from&#8221; mentality made for some great fun in the early days as online editors at certain surf magazines delighted in posting completely bogus stories just to see how quickly the seemingly irony impaired minds behind Global Surf News would pick them up and run with them. Remember the <strong>Rip Curl Search<\/strong> at Swami&#8217;s story?<\/p>\n<p>But now, with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingyearook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Surfing Yearbook<\/a><\/strong>, Surfer&#8217;s Village has done something that we think will become standard for most publications in the action sports media space (if they&#8217;re smart). They have collected a year&#8217;s worth of posts from their websites, added some great photos, and a bit of commentary and perspective and are releasing it all in a 240-page illustrated coffee table book edited by surf journalist <strong>Phil Jarratt<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s what he said about it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re aiming to do with The Surfing Yearbook is to present a fully-rounded picture of surfing that will appeal to everyone in the sport, culture and industry, from the lowliest grom surfing in his first amateur comp to the high-rolling CEO of the biggest surf corporations. We\u2019re targeting the grom first because we know the CEOs will follow.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t seen the $65 book yet (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsurfnews.com\/news.asp?Id_news=40000\" target=\"_blank\">the official launch party is April 9, 2009 at Bells<\/a><\/strong>), but the idea seems perfectly timed. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingyearook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Surfing Yearbook<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfersvillage and Global Surf News have always bummed us out a little. Their &#8220;we post everything and don&#8217;t care who we steal it from&#8221; mentality made for some great fun in the early days as online editors at certain surf magazines delighted in posting completely bogus stories just to see how quickly the seemingly irony [&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\/7264"}],"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=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7268,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}