{"id":980,"date":"2006-01-03T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T06:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=980"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T08:01:18","slug":"life-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/itvs_portraits\/life-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"Life changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002 I was living in Hong Kong, with 25 years of age I pretty much had achieved everything I had always been hoping for, a dream job as worldwide Marketing Manager, my own secretary, an apartment in the 16th floor of a skyscraper in Soho on Hong Kong island, lots of friends, lots of fun, lots of travelling in Asia, great life &#8230; until I saw the first photograph of a kitesurfer, funnily enough, in the very publication that I was working for back then.<\/p>\n<p>That day chaged everything. \u2018Woooow, what da he\u00a7$% is that, that\u2019s the perfect combination of e v e r y t h i n g  I love doing: snowboarding, wakeboarding, skydiving, &#8230;\u2019 went through my head and .. \u2018I  g o t t a  learn this\u2019.  The rest in history. Stance interviewed me to that drastic move in life that I took back then, giving everything up for a dream and succeeding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002 I was living in Hong Kong, with 25 years of age I pretty much had achieved everything I had always been hoping for, a dream job as worldwide Marketing Manager, my own secretary, an apartment in the 16th floor of a skyscraper in Soho on Hong Kong island, lots of friends, lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,46],"tags":[257,258,76,255,145,260,261,259,118],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itvs_portraits","category-various","tag-career","tag-dream","tag-hong-kong","tag-kite-pro-life","tag-kitesurf-professional","tag-skateboarding","tag-skydiving","tag-snowboarding","tag-stance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}