{"id":117343,"date":"2016-04-10T13:23:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T20:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=117343"},"modified":"2016-04-10T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T20:23:24","slug":"taj-burrow-announces-retirement-from-surfing-after-19-year-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=117343","title":{"rendered":"Taj Burrow announces retirement from surfing after 19-year career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Australian surfer Taj Burrow has announced his retirement after 19 years on the world tour after coming to the realisation he was failing to &#8220;keep up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old from Yallingup made the announcement this morning after a display of good form and a solid heat win in the opening round of the Margaret River Pro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That heat was the best I&#8217;ve felt this year,&#8221; Burrow said of the round one performance in which he scored a combined total of 16.34.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a bit shaky in the first two events but being home and happy and comfortable in my home environment, I felt good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burrow said he had been\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-04-09\/wa-pro-surfer-taj-burrow-retires\/7313214\" 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>West Australian surfer Taj Burrow has announced his retirement after 19 years on the world tour after coming to the realisation he was failing to &#8220;keep up&#8221;. The 37-year-old from Yallingup made the announcement this morning after a display of good form and a solid heat win in the opening round of the Margaret River [&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-117343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117343","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=117343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117344,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117343\/revisions\/117344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}