{"id":159305,"date":"2020-11-08T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159305"},"modified":"2020-11-08T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T17:01:45","slug":"surfing-banned-at-nazare-after-century-swell-draws-thousands-of-spectators-amid-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159305","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Banned at Nazar\u00e9 After \u2018Century Swell\u2019 Draws Thousands of Spectators Amid Coronavirus Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing has officially been banned at Nazar\u00e9 after the Century Swell attracted thousands of spectators in the middle of a pandemic last week. The decision, made by Portugal\u2019s National Health Commission likely wasn\u2019t an easy one to make \u2014 Nazar\u00e9 depends heavily on tourism, after all, and the draw of the world\u2019s biggest wave is one of the best attractions on earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the current context of the pandemic,\u201d wrote Jose Antonio Zeferino Henriques, Lieutenant Commander of the National Ministry of Defense, \u201cPraia do Norte, municipality of Nazar\u00e9 District of Leiria, is prohibited for the activities of\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/nazare-surfing-ban-after-century-swell-coronavirus-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing has officially been banned at Nazar\u00e9 after the Century Swell attracted thousands of spectators in the middle of a pandemic last week. The decision, made by Portugal\u2019s National Health Commission likely wasn\u2019t an easy one to make \u2014 Nazar\u00e9 depends heavily on tourism, after all, and the draw of the world\u2019s biggest wave is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159305","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=159305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159306,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159305\/revisions\/159306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}