{"id":46160,"date":"2014-05-05T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=46160"},"modified":"2014-05-05T09:27:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:27:52","slug":"occy-puts-son-jay-to-work-at-billabong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=46160","title":{"rendered":"Occy Puts Son Jay To Work At Billabong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/409134-d4107db2-d40e-11e3-95ae-9151c7cd2575.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/409134-d4107db2-d40e-11e3-95ae-9151c7cd2575.jpg','popup','width=650,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\/2014\/05\/409134-d4107db2-d40e-11e3-95ae-9151c7cd2575-tm.jpg\" height=\"242\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"409134-D4107Db2-D40E-11E3-95Ae-9151C7Cd2575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proving that kids are never too young to get to work, <strong>Mark Occhilupo<\/strong> has just signed his son up for a two-year contract with <strong>Billabong<\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/jay-occhilupo-11-son-of-former-surfing-world-champion-mark-signs-deal-with-billabong\/story-fni2u98u-1226906409790\">Herald Sun<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.  <strong>Jay Occhilupo<\/strong> is just 11 years old.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the youngest surfers to ever receive a sponsorship deal from the iconic brand, Jay joins a star stable including <strong>Joel Parkinson<\/strong>, <strong>Taj Burrow<\/strong>, <strong>Andy Irons<\/strong>, and dad. . . \u201cI\u2019m feeling stoked, I was hoping for it but I wasn\u2019t expecting it so soon,\u201d Jay said. . . Mark Occhilupo was 14 when he was signed by Billabong more than 30 years ago. . .\u201cSo it\u2019s fitting for Jay to be in the Billabong team,\u201d Mark said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the kids are going to do the work, they certainly deserve to get paid. We hope the best for young Jay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/jay-occhilupo-11-son-of-former-surfing-world-champion-mark-signs-deal-with-billabong\/story-fni2u98u-1226906409790\">Herald Sun<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proving that kids are never too young to get to work, Mark Occhilupo has just signed his son up for a two-year contract with Billabong, according to a story in the Herald Sun. Jay Occhilupo is just 11 years old. One of the youngest surfers to ever receive a sponsorship deal from the iconic brand, [&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":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46160"}],"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=46160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46161,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46160\/revisions\/46161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}