{"id":85119,"date":"2013-10-12T08:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=85119"},"modified":"2013-10-12T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T15:07:35","slug":"surfing-sally-fitzgibbon-says-the-sport-has-transformed-from-lifestyle-to-elite-fitness-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=85119","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Sally Fitzgibbon says the sport has transformed from lifestyle to elite fitness regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GORGEOUS, tanned and extremely talented, life must be a breeze for surf champ Sally Fitzgibbons.<\/p>\n<p>Exciting, fast paced and fun, yes, but it is anything but easy.<\/p>\n<p>Like Gold Coasters Joel Parkinson, the reigning champion, and Mick Fanning, this year&#8217;s tour leader and a two-time world champion, Fitzgibbons has shattered the perception of professional surfing as a lifestyle sport.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old was a champion runner who won gold at a junior Olympics and has also represented her state and country at touch footy and soccer and insists\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national-news\/queensland\/gold-coast-surfer-sally-fitzgibbon-says-the-sport-has-transformed-from-lifestyle-to-elite-fitness-regime\/story-fnii5v6w-1226738791446\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GORGEOUS, tanned and extremely talented, life must be a breeze for surf champ Sally Fitzgibbons. Exciting, fast paced and fun, yes, but it is anything but easy. Like Gold Coasters Joel Parkinson, the reigning champion, and Mick Fanning, this year&#8217;s tour leader and a two-time world champion, Fitzgibbons has shattered the perception of professional surfing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-nutrition","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85119","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=85119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85121,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85119\/revisions\/85121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}