{"id":8217,"date":"2011-04-04T09:28:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T07:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=8217"},"modified":"2011-04-04T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T07:32:26","slug":"meeting-kelly-slater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/blog\/chitchat\/meeting-kelly-slater\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Kelly Slater&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty six of the World\u2019s Top 32 ranked surfers assembled in Margaret River, Western Australia, for the start of the <a title=\"Check out the event on the web!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telstradrugawarepro.com\">2011 Telstra Drug Aware Pro today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst them: <strong>World Number 1<\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"Check out Kelly Slaters website!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kellyslater.com\/\">Ten Time ASP Champion Kelly Slater!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently chilling out in Western Australia, gaining energy for an exciting season ahead and thought I might as well swing passed the surf comp to see what&#8217;s happening&#8230; and had the chance to meet THE legend &#8220;Sl8er&#8221; which was pretty freakin&#8217; sick\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 !<\/p>\n<p>Kelly is back in Margaret River for the first time since 1993. Reminded of his last  appearance at Surfer\u2019s Point Kelly quipped, <em>\u201cIt was wonderful. I lost my  first heat, I got last place, ripped my wetsuit open, broke my board  and got my leash stuck on the reef. Then my rental car broke down, it  was all bad for me at that event and I haven\u2019t been back to surf in it  since.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s hope that he will have more luck this year \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt looks like the surf is going to be great for this event with Saturday being the best day, it should be a good finish. Each day I like to check the surf and go from there, if the surf\u2019s no good I\u2019ll play golf or go to a winery,<\/em>\u201d said Slater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty six of the World\u2019s Top 32 ranked surfers assembled in Margaret River, Western Australia, for the start of the 2011 Telstra Drug Aware Pro today. Amongst them: World Number 1 and Ten Time ASP Champion Kelly Slater! I&#8217;m currently chilling out in Western Australia, gaining energy for an exciting season ahead and thought I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[41,33,1662,1075,1664,1663,611,42,716],"class_list":["post-8217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chitchat","tag-australia","tag-competition","tag-kelly","tag-kelly-slater","tag-sl8er","tag-slater","tag-surf","tag-waves","tag-western"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8234,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions\/8234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}