{"id":35302,"date":"2010-08-09T08:04:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T15:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35302"},"modified":"2010-08-09T08:04:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T15:04:59","slug":"bodyboarding-mark-mccarthy-takes-the-west-coast-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35302","title":{"rendered":"Bodyboarding &#8211; Mark McCarthy takes the West Coast Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The weather that was predicted had arrived with a vengeance on the morning of the finals. All contestants met at Bones at 7am to make a call whether to run the contest or to hold off and surf the huge swell that was predicted for Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The decision was made to surf the remaining 7 final heats at Bones. The waves were still very contestable but with a side shore wind that was getting stronger by the minute it was decided that the Junior and Pro final should be run first followed by the remaining other divisions. Waves were in the 3-5ft range with the wind conditions making wave choice a huge part in the finalists approach to\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/bodyboarding\/3868-mark-mccarthy-takes-the-west-coast-classic\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather that was predicted had arrived with a vengeance on the morning of the finals. All contestants met at Bones at 7am to make a call whether to run the contest or to hold off and surf the huge swell that was predicted for Monday. The decision was made to surf the remaining 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35302","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=35302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35303,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35302\/revisions\/35303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}