{"id":8478,"date":"2009-06-02T07:58:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T14:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8478"},"modified":"2009-06-02T08:43:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T15:43:55","slug":"maya-gabeira-profiled-in-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8478","title":{"rendered":"Maya Gabeira Profiled In The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/maya-gabeira.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/maya-gabeira.jpg','popup','width=319,height=264,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\/06\/maya-gabeira-tm.jpg\" height=\"165\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Maya Gabeira\" \/><\/a>Brazilian big wave charger <strong>Maya Gabeira<\/strong> is featured in an extensive profile (and video interview) in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/redbulletin\/surf-girl-maya-is-breaking-taboos-1694371.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Underneath the veneer is a young woman driven to pursue a rush that few of us will ever know, punishing her body and testing her resolve as she breaks into a macho and fiercely-territorial boy\u2019s club \u2013 all for a few big waves. . . \u201cI thought it would be so cool to have a girl who could do it, just like the boys,\u201d she says. \u201cI thought it was an impressive sport, and so radical and intense, and it took so much dedication. And I thought if I ever saw a girl doing it, I\u2019d be impressed? Right now, I can\u2019t even visualise that that girl is me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that we&#8217;re arriving late to the Maya party, but this girl is rad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/redbulletin\/surf-girl-maya-is-breaking-taboos-1694371.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian big wave charger Maya Gabeira is featured in an extensive profile (and video interview) in The Independent. Underneath the veneer is a young woman driven to pursue a rush that few of us will ever know, punishing her body and testing her resolve as she breaks into a macho and fiercely-territorial boy\u2019s club \u2013 [&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\/8478"}],"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=8478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8480,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}