{"id":6797,"date":"2009-03-31T09:29:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2009-03-31T09:58:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T16:58:06","slug":"surfing-mavericks-still-waiting-on-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6797","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Maverick&#8217;s still waiting on waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The official waiting period closes today on the Maverick&#8217;s big-wave surf contest, but it isn&#8217;t quite dead yet. Officials have been granted an extension through April 8 by the San Mateo County Harbor District, with hopes of stretching the window through the entire month of April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not that the surfers are terribly optimistic. &#8220;I have never seen so few 15-foot-plus days in the December-to-March stretch in the 18 years I&#8217;ve been surfing Maverick&#8217;s,&#8221; San Francisco&#8217;s Grant Washburn said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just the worst season I can remember.&#8221;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/03\/31\/SP4I16PF8C.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=14219&amp;p=12689&amp;pw=15937\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official waiting period closes today on the Maverick&#8217;s big-wave surf contest, but it isn&#8217;t quite dead yet. Officials have been granted an extension through April 8 by the San Mateo County Harbor District, with hopes of stretching the window through the entire month of April. Not that the surfers are terribly optimistic. &#8220;I have [&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-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","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=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}