{"id":1372,"date":"2009-02-26T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2009-02-26T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T15:20:00","slug":"surf-stars-flock-to-noosa-for-the-gsi-noosa-fest-of-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"Surf stars flock to Noosa for the GSI Noosa Fest of Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1373\" title=\"noosa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/noosa-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"noosa\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Two generations of surfing legends and world champions, plus the hottest international longboarding contingent in years head the lineup at the 2009 Global Surf Industries Noosa Festival of Surfing next month.<\/p>\n<p>Two times and reigning world longboard champion Bonga Perkins of Hawaii will not contest the professional events but will be an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ambassador of aloha\u00e2\u20ac\u009d over the eight-day festival. Said event director Phil Jarratt: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bonga has been the best ambassador for Noosa we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever had, and&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsurfnews.com\/news.asp?Id_news=39139\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two generations of surfing legends and world champions, plus the hottest international longboarding contingent in years head the lineup at the 2009 Global Surf Industries Noosa Festival of Surfing next month. Two times and reigning world longboard champion Bonga Perkins of Hawaii will not contest the professional events but will be an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ambassador of aloha\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","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=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}