{"id":5730,"date":"2009-02-26T07:13:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5730"},"modified":"2009-03-31T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T03:56:18","slug":"mavericks-not-getting-mavericky-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5730","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Not Getting Mavericky Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/surf0226.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/surf0226.jpg','popup','width=497,height=313,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\/02\/surf0226-tm.jpg\" height=\"125\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surf.0226\" \/><\/a>While it looked like a contest was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3997\" target=\"_blank\">getting pretty close<\/a><\/strong> in January, since then there have be no real sizable swells to speak of and it&#8217;s looking more and more like the contest will not go off this year, according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/local\/Calm-surf-stalling-Mavericks-40327727.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Examiner<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Surf forecasters said Wednesday that calm ocean conditions expected in March may lead to the cancellation of the annual surf competition for the second time in three years. Unless an ocean condition called La Ni\u00f1a weakens or the wind patterns on the equator shift dramatically (both of which are unlikely), Mother Nature will not produce the 30-foot-tall waves needed to hold the world-famous contest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The waiting period ends March 31. Bummer. With <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/live.quiksilver.com\/2008\/bigwave\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Eddie<\/a><\/strong> waiting period ending on Saturday, it looks like no big wave contests this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/local\/Calm-surf-stalling-Mavericks-40327727.html\" target=\"_blank\">SF Examiner<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it looked like a contest was getting pretty close in January, since then there have be no real sizable swells to speak of and it&#8217;s looking more and more like the contest will not go off this year, according to a story in the San Francisco Examiner. Surf forecasters said Wednesday that calm ocean [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730"}],"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=5730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7042,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions\/7042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}