{"id":109250,"date":"2015-08-15T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=109250"},"modified":"2015-08-15T10:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T17:17:54","slug":"the-battle-for-mavericks-money-and-power-churn-up-the-surfing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=109250","title":{"rendered":"The battle for Mavericks: Money and power churn up the surfing world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right about now, the summer onshore winds are blowing softly against the small waves from the south in Half Moon Bay, Calif., causing them to fold over on themselves as they lap against the rugged shoreline at Pillar Point. Mavericks\u2014the most ferocious surf spot in the world\u2014is asleep during this, the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>But come late fall, when North Pacific storms line up (and this winter, it\u2019s more likely than ever as the current El Ni\u00f1o cycle strengthens) this same shoreline looking out into the \u201cgraveyard\u201d of rock that marks Mavericks\u2019 dangerous inside section, will become a maelstrom of saltwater and foam as\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/edge\/2015\/08\/13\/titans-of-mavericks-wsl-big-wave-surfing\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right about now, the summer onshore winds are blowing softly against the small waves from the south in Half Moon Bay, Calif., causing them to fold over on themselves as they lap against the rugged shoreline at Pillar Point. Mavericks\u2014the most ferocious surf spot in the world\u2014is asleep during this, the off-season. But come late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109251,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109250\/revisions\/109251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}