{"id":53372,"date":"2018-12-10T12:54:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53372"},"modified":"2018-12-12T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:10:14","slug":"dirk-ziffs-pond-in-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53372","title":{"rendered":"Dirk Ziff&#8217;s Pond In The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tny_finnegan-450x258.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tny_finnegan.png 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tny_finnegan-200x115.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2PyQVMr\"><strong>William Finnegan<\/strong><\/a>, a surfer who writes well, gives his take on <strong>Dirk Ziff&#8217;s<\/strong> wave pond along with a recap of nearly everything wave pool related that has happened in the last four years in a really, really long story in the December 17, 2018&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/12\/17\/kelly-slaters-shock-wave\"><em><strong>The New Yorker<\/strong><\/em><\/a> magazine. It starts out a little like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first few hours I spent at the W.S.L. Surf Ranch, a wave pool built for surfing in the farmlands south of Fresno, California, were for me a blur. I was fine on arrival, hiking through a little forest of scaffolding, eucalyptus, and white tents with a publicist from the Kelly Slater Wave Company, which built and runs the place. The valley heat was fierce but dry. House music rode on a light northwest breeze.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not really sure how the story finishes because we lost interest about three paragraphs in, but you might not. Give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/12\/17\/kelly-slaters-shock-wave\"><strong>the link<\/strong><\/a> a click and see for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/12\/17\/kelly-slaters-shock-wave\">The New Yorker<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Finnegan, a surfer who writes well, gives his take on Dirk Ziff&#8217;s wave pond along with a recap of nearly everything wave pool related that has happened in the last four years in a really, really long story in the December 17, 2018&nbsp;The New Yorker magazine. It starts out a little like this: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372"}],"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=53372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53375,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372\/revisions\/53375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}