{"id":8017,"date":"2009-05-14T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2009-05-14T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T23:18:18","slug":"lake-michigan-gets-four-more-surf-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8017","title":{"rendered":"Lake Michigan Gets Four More Surf Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/051409surf-cst-feed-20090513-22-16-46-1562h282w400.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/051409surf-cst-feed-20090513-22-16-46-1562h282w400.jpeg','popup','width=400,height=282,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\/051409surf-cst-feed-20090513-22-16-46-1562h282w400-tm.jpg\" height=\"141\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"051409Surf Cst Feed 20090513 22 16 46 1562#H=282&#038;W=400\" \/><\/a>The Chicago Park District is apparently opening four Lake Michigan beaches to surfing according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/1573787,CST-NWS-surf14.article\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Vince Deur,<\/strong> who founded the Surfrider Foundation&#8217;s Lake Michigan chapter in 2007, said Wednesday that supporters met Tuesday with Park District Supt. <strong>Timothy Mitchell<\/strong>, who agreed the district would begin taking steps to allow surfing at four beaches between this Labor Day and Memorial Day. . . The surfing group and the Park District are also looking into allowing surfing at the 41st Street Beach all year, beginning perhaps as early as Memorial Day weekend, Deur said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s so fresh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/1573787,CST-NWS-surf14.article\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/ondeadline\/2009\/05\/surfs-up-in-chicago.html\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Park District is apparently opening four Lake Michigan beaches to surfing according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times. Vince Deur, who founded the Surfrider Foundation&#8217;s Lake Michigan chapter in 2007, said Wednesday that supporters met Tuesday with Park District Supt. Timothy Mitchell, who agreed the district would begin taking steps to allow [&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\/8017"}],"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=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8018,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/8018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}