{"id":96083,"date":"2014-07-11T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=96083"},"modified":"2014-07-11T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:35:10","slug":"the-slow-death-of-professional-bodyboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=96083","title":{"rendered":"The slow death of professional bodyboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Professional bodyboarding is living one of the most difficult seasons in the history of the sport. Nevertheless, there are good examples of how competitions can be run. Isn&#8217;t it time to imitate good practices?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bodyboarding fans are confused. The IBA World Tour 2014 has been cancelled, but its Facebook page keeps posting insipid messages. The website is a disgrace: two blocks of ads, and a short message with a mistyped word.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The newly-formed Association of Professional Bodyboarders (APB) promised\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/bodyboarding\/10628-the-slow-death-of-professional-bodyboarding?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fbodyboarding+%28Bodyboarding+News+%7C+SurferToday.com%29\" 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>Professional bodyboarding is living one of the most difficult seasons in the history of the sport. Nevertheless, there are good examples of how competitions can be run. Isn&#8217;t it time to imitate good practices? Bodyboarding fans are confused. The IBA World Tour 2014 has been cancelled, but its Facebook page keeps posting insipid messages. 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":[5,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96083","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\/96083","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=96083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96084,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96083\/revisions\/96084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}