{"id":40,"date":"2007-12-19T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2007\/12\/19\/surfs-up\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T14:00:04","slug":"surfs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2007\/12\/19\/surfs-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf&#8217;s Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lifeblogimage\"><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgPPej6m.jpg\" alt=\"imgPPej6m.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And so was I, only once or twice, but that&#8217;s good enough for me! Donning full wetsuits, us surfer newbies learnt about rips, balance and how to stand up then made for the broken waves. After finding out that being a little too far forward equals a mouthful of sea and interesting few seconds under a wave, I did manage to stand up &#8211; thanks to Caroline for recording the momentous occasion!<br \/>\nMy arms are now thoroughly tired, which isn&#8217;t that surprising given that they were essentially doing press-ups for 2 hours, and that&#8217;s a tad more work than the typing they are used to. It may take a few days to recover, but I&#8217;ll be back in again soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so was I, only once or twice, but that&#8217;s good enough for me! Donning full wetsuits, us surfer newbies learnt about rips, balance and how to stand up then made for the broken waves. After finding out that being a little too far forward equals a mouthful of sea and interesting few seconds under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2007\/12\/19\/surfs-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surf&#8217;s Up!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}