{"id":9040,"date":"2009-07-10T09:15:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2009-07-10T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T16:17:02","slug":"montreal-river-surfers-keep-the-dream-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9040","title":{"rendered":"Montreal River Surfers Keep The Dream Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/10river6001.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/10river6001.jpg','popup','width=600,height=366,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\/07\/10river6001-tm.jpg\" height=\"262\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"10River600.1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/10\/travel\/escapes\/10Riversurf.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer and former pro snowboarder <strong>Jesse Huffman<\/strong> drops in with a group of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfmtl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">surfers in Montreal Canada<\/a><\/strong> who have a great little surf spot the Lawrence River.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearing the wave, I turned the board upstream and released the rope when I was inside the wave. A dense, solid but fluidly dynamic water surface rushed beneath my board. It was a moment of mild vertigo, depth and perspective hard to pinpoint in such an alien environment. I lasted a few fleeting seconds before washing out the back, long enough to feel the potential.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surf what you&#8217;ve got. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/10\/travel\/escapes\/10Riversurf.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9014&amp;cpage=1#comment-34392\" target=\"_blank\">Baby Mama<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times writer and former pro snowboarder Jesse Huffman drops in with a group of surfers in Montreal Canada who have a great little surf spot the Lawrence River. Nearing the wave, I turned the board upstream and released the rope when I was inside the wave. A dense, solid but fluidly dynamic water [&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\/9040"}],"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=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9042,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}