{"id":32386,"date":"2012-09-24T08:58:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T15:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32386"},"modified":"2012-09-24T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T17:57:13","slug":"mick-fanning-slammed-by-gold-coast-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32386","title":{"rendered":"Mick Fanning Slammed By Gold Coast Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fanning-wide-190812.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fanning-wide-190812.jpg','popup','width=640,height=412,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\/2012\/09\/fanning-wide-190812-tm.jpg\" height=\"128\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Fanning-Wide-190812\" \/><\/a>When Mick Fanning mentioned (on<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mick_Fanning\/status\/244372652528107520\" target=\"_blank\"> Twitter<\/a><\/strong>) that he thought a new cruise ship terminal on the Goldie would cause &#8220;mass impact to the marine life, waves and lifestyle on the Gold Coast&#8221; mayor <strong>Tom Tate<\/strong> said he would &#8220;listen to the people that matter,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2012\/09\/19\/438404_surfing-sport.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But obviously, Mayor Tom didn&#8217;t know he was messing with the whole tribe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gold Coast surfing champions <strong>Mark Richardson<\/strong> and <strong>Andrew McKinnon<\/strong> have lashed out. . . Mr Richardson, a former Australian champion, scoffed at Cr Tate&#8217;s claims that he would find other high-profile surfers to back plans for a Gold Coast terminal. . . &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll find any surfers that will be on Tom Tate&#8217;s side about that,&#8221; he said. . . &#8220;Every surfer will be standing behind Mick Fanning, you can pretty much guarantee that. I can&#8217;t believe those comments. It&#8217;s absolutely ludicrous.&#8221; . . . Mr Richardson said his brother-in-law and fellow champion surfer <strong>Joel Parkinson<\/strong> would back Fanning. . . &#8220;We think it&#8217;s a joke. Mr Tate is underestimating surfers&#8217; value.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like this discussion is going to be rolling on for a while.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2012\/09\/20\/438455_surfing-sport.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mick Fanning mentioned (on Twitter) that he thought a new cruise ship terminal on the Goldie would cause &#8220;mass impact to the marine life, waves and lifestyle on the Gold Coast&#8221; mayor Tom Tate said he would &#8220;listen to the people that matter,&#8221; according to a story on Goldcoast.com.au. But obviously, Mayor Tom didn&#8217;t [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32408,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32386\/revisions\/32408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}