{"id":94868,"date":"2014-06-04T21:27:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=94868"},"modified":"2014-06-04T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:28:13","slug":"surfing-under-new-management-mavericks-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=94868","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Under New Management: Mavericks Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For as long as man has ridden waves, he has tried to ride as big wave as possible. And for as long as man has ridden big waves, he has tried to reach a mainstream audience in doing so. \u201cIt\u2019s so simple!\u201d they say, before mentioning the \u201cbig wave, small person\u201d concept and referencing the Mississippi grandma that\u2019s going to be glued to her TV as Dorian packs the inside bowl at Maverick\u2019s. But so far, nobody\u2019s really been able to deliver. The webcast is shotty. The waits are too long between waves and sometimes, the waves just aren\u2019t that big. But all you can do is keep pounding on middle-America\u2019s door and eventually somebody\u2019s going to answer. Picture it: The screen door creaks ajar. A leery mother, in stained sweat pants with a KFC bucket clutched in her arm, says, \u201cState yer business.\u201d The sharp-dressed man on the stoop flashes\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingmagazine.com\/news\/new-management-mavericks-invitational\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as man has ridden waves, he has tried to ride as big wave as possible. And for as long as man has ridden big waves, he has tried to reach a mainstream audience in doing so. \u201cIt\u2019s so simple!\u201d they say, before mentioning the \u201cbig wave, small person\u201d concept and referencing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94868","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=94868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94869,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94868\/revisions\/94869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}