{"id":638,"date":"2008-03-18T15:23:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2008-03-18T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T03:28:23","slug":"right-a-newspaper-made-kelly-surf-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Right: A Newspaper Made Kelly Surf Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian newspaper the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geelongadvertiser.com.au\/article\/2008\/03\/18\/12284_news.html\" target=\"_blank\">Geelong Advertiser<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has run a story today claiming that <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> decided to surf in the <strong>Rip Curl<\/strong> event because of comments from the newspaper&#8217;s readers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Readers and local surfers &#8211; including big wave champion <strong>Tony Ray<\/strong> &#8211; appeared in a video stating why they felt Slater should compete. . . . The message got through, according to the 36-year-old American, who said he changed his mind after watching the video on the internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While we&#8217;re sure he changed his mind post video viewing, we&#8217;re going to guess that there was a lot more going on than pressure from the locals. . . you know, like another title? And, more media incentive money, and the chance to jack with the rest of the ASP top 44.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geelongadvertiser.com.au\/article\/2008\/03\/18\/12284_news.html\" target=\"_blank\">Geelong Advertiser<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian newspaper the Geelong Advertiser has run a story today claiming that Kelly Slater decided to surf in the Rip Curl event because of comments from the newspaper&#8217;s readers. Readers and local surfers &#8211; including big wave champion Tony Ray &#8211; appeared in a video stating why they felt Slater should compete. . . . [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}