{"id":2440,"date":"2009-03-04T07:12:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2009-03-17T09:48:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:48:53","slug":"sculpture-to-honor-surfing-legend-needs-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2440","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture to honor surfing legend needs funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Drazich&#8217;s dream to create a landmark statue in Cocoa Beach to honor surfing champ Kelly Slater is closer to reality, although far away from meeting expenses.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"aa\">The unique bronze sculpture (still a clay model), which has taken nearly a year to complete by Drazich&#8217;s sister, Natasha, will be placed later this year in the middle of the city at the 4th Street North &#8220;split&#8221; on Hwy. A1A.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"aa\">The entire process, including a forthcoming $47,000 bill to the bronze foundry in Sarasota, will have cost Drazich and his family &#8220;about $100,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess we&#8217;ve probably raised about 30 or 40 bucks,&#8221; laughed Drazich, a weekend surfer whose family grew up in the city. &#8220;I&#8217;m just hoping someone is going to come through, big. &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20090303\/SPORTS01\/903030328\/1006\/news01\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Drazich&#8217;s dream to create a landmark statue in Cocoa Beach to honor surfing champ Kelly Slater is closer to reality, although far away from meeting expenses. The unique bronze sculpture (still a clay model), which has taken nearly a year to complete by Drazich&#8217;s sister, Natasha, will be placed later this year in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","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=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}