{"id":7717,"date":"2009-05-04T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2009-05-04T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T15:22:21","slug":"uk-surfers-want-the-pms-help-with-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7717","title":{"rendered":"UK Surfers Want The PM&#8217;s Help With Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/marinelitterpetitionjpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/marinelitterpetitionjpg.jpeg','popup','width=331,height=418,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\/05\/marinelitterpetition-tm.jpg\" height=\"252\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Marinelitterpetition.Jpg\" \/><\/a><strong>O\u2019Neill<\/strong> team rider <strong>Sam Lamiroy<\/strong> and UK pro surfers <strong>Alan Stokes<\/strong>, <strong>Mark \u2018Egor\u2019 Harris<\/strong>, <strong>Oli Adams<\/strong> joined members of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfers Against Sewage<\/a><\/strong> with a petition to England&#8217;s Prime Minister Gordon Brown to get the government &#8220;to take urgent action to increase protection levels for our oceans in relation to litter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SAS Campaign Manager Andy Cummins says:  \u201cThurso\u2019s a great wave and one of the most remote venues for a surf competition.  But like most surf spots in the UK it\u2019s plagued with plastics and other marine litter.  Join SAS and call for the Prime Minister to implement a National Marine Litter Strategy to protect our beloved beaches and surf spots.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.number10.gov.uk\/marine-litter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to sign the petition<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/environment\/1276-surfers-against-sewage-write-to-gordon-brown\" target=\"_blank\">SurferToday.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O\u2019Neill team rider Sam Lamiroy and UK pro surfers Alan Stokes, Mark \u2018Egor\u2019 Harris, Oli Adams joined members of Surfers Against Sewage with a petition to England&#8217;s Prime Minister Gordon Brown to get the government &#8220;to take urgent action to increase protection levels for our oceans in relation to litter.&#8221; SAS Campaign Manager Andy Cummins [&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":[25,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717"}],"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=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7718,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions\/7718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}