{"id":141535,"date":"2018-04-22T14:33:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=141535"},"modified":"2018-04-22T14:33:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:33:37","slug":"world-surf-league-wsl-interesting-facts-about-the-pro-surfing-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=141535","title":{"rendered":"World Surf League (WSL): Interesting facts about the pro surfing organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best surfers on the planet compete in the World Surf League (WSL). No doubt about that. But exactly is the WSL? Who runs it? What&#8217;s behind the conglomerate?<\/p>\n<p>According to Forbes, the surf industry generates around $13 billion, so you could hardly run a surfing&#8217;s professional world tour without a business-oriented mindset.<\/p>\n<p>The World Surf League is basically a\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/14273-world-surf-league-interesting-facts-about-the-pro-surfing-organization?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fsurfing+%28Surf+News+%7C+SurferToday.com%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best surfers on the planet compete in the World Surf League (WSL). No doubt about that. But exactly is the WSL? Who runs it? What&#8217;s behind the conglomerate? According to Forbes, the surf industry generates around $13 billion, so you could hardly run a surfing&#8217;s professional world tour without a business-oriented mindset. The World [&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-141535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141535","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=141535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141536,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141535\/revisions\/141536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}