{"id":7994,"date":"2009-05-13T14:11:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T21:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2009-05-17T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T22:47:02","slug":"kelly-slater-in-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7994","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Slater In Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/slater-boost08.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/slater-boost08.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=664,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\/slater-boost08-tm.jpg\" height=\"285\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Slater Boost08\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we don&#8217;t read print magazines all that much it took a while before we were able to check out the recent <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/article\/magazine\/MAG1155067\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a><\/em><\/strong> story on <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> by writer <strong>Gary Smith<\/strong>. Here is a piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, then &#8230; why did he ride the ocean? What was his purpose? The more he stared at the question, the more jumbled the answers grew, his whys like old clothes crammed in a drawer. They&#8217;d seemed to fit once, but the longer he looked at them now, the more holes and wrinkles he saw, the more whys he didn&#8217;t even recognize. Where the hell to begin?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those stories where the writer tries a little too hard and ends up getting in the way. But it&#8217;s worth reading because it&#8217;s long and it&#8217;s about Kelly.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/surfermag.com\/features\/onlineexclusives\/kelly-slater-sports-illustrated-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Bass&#8217; interview of Gary Smith<\/a><\/strong> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/surfermag.com\/features\/onlineexclusives\/kelly-slater-sports-illustrated-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfer.com<\/a><\/strong> is also worth reading, though he obviously seemed to enjoy Smith&#8217;s writing stylings a little more than we did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/article\/magazine\/MAG1155067\/1\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/valerotti\" target=\"_blank\">valerotti<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we don&#8217;t read print magazines all that much it took a while before we were able to check out the recent Sports Illustrated story on Kelly Slater by writer Gary Smith. Here is a piece: Well, then &#8230; why did he ride the ocean? What was his purpose? The more he stared at the [&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\/7994"}],"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=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8098,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions\/8098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}