{"id":950,"date":"2006-10-16T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T11:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=950"},"modified":"2008-07-10T13:56:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T11:56:15","slug":"la-vie-de-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/various\/la-vie-de-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"La Vie de Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting paid \u2018just\u2019 to go kitesurfing is not quite the reality of kitesurf-professionals.<br \/>\n\u2018You\u2019re so lucky, you get paid to go kiteing\u2019 is a phrase I hear many times&#8230;  YES, indeed I am, I feel privileged having found something that I believe so strongly and passionately in as I do in kitesurfing, however, luck is only one piece in the \u2018success-puzzle\u2019 in making a living as a kite-pro, focus, sheer determination, 100% commitment, true persistency  and talent is at least as important. <\/p>\n<p>In other words:  figure out your greatest passion, choose what you wanna be, gung ho attitude &#038; go for it, do not accept \u2018no\u2019 for an answer  and your dreams might come true&#8230;but be prepared that there\u2019s a price you will have to pay for it, it\u2019s all about choices and compromises, just like anything in life but it\u2019s without a doubt  t o t a l l y  worth it!<\/p>\n<p>Looking into the most common clich\u00e9s around the life of a kitesurf-professional, not everything in this article should be taken deadly serious !! Most photos were taken on paradise island Caye Caulker in Belize, Central America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting paid \u2018just\u2019 to go kitesurfing is not quite the reality of kitesurf-professionals. \u2018You\u2019re so lucky, you get paid to go kiteing\u2019 is a phrase I hear many times&#8230; YES, indeed I am, I feel privileged having found something that I believe so strongly and passionately in as I do in kitesurfing, however, luck is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[127,146,256,254,251,147,255,145,118],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-various","tag-belize","tag-caye-caulker","tag-central-america","tag-cliches","tag-dreams","tag-garance-mac-keene","tag-kite-pro-life","tag-kitesurf-professional","tag-stance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}