{"id":1196,"date":"2011-01-27T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2011-02-06T23:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T06:01:01","slug":"welcome-home-cowells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2011\/01\/welcome-home-cowells\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome home, Cowells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2011\/01\/welcome-home-cowells\/sc-01-27-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1211\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1211\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2011\/01\/welcome-home-cowells\/sc-01-27-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SC-01-27-11.jpg?fit=2592%2C1936&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2592,1936\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1296124395&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0006631299734748&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SC-01-27-11\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SC-01-27-11.jpg?fit=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SC-01-27-11.jpg?fit=525%2C392&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SC-01-27-11.jpg?resize=525%2C392\" alt=\"\" title=\"SC-01-27-11\" width=\"525\" height=\"392\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SC-01-27-11.jpg?w=2592&amp;ssl=1 2592w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SC-01-27-11.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SC-01-27-11.jpg?resize=1024%2C764&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SC-01-27-11.jpg?w=1575 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Surf:<\/strong> Slow, mellow knee-waist high waves. Clean. 6ft @ 14s from W 278\u00c2\u00ba<\/p>\n<p>Nice to be back in the water after my work trip. <\/p>\n<p>The surf was plenty big in the city and, after almost 2 weeks dry, I figured a mellow SC session was in store. Shannon also had SC on her mind. We took her big surf van down there. I haven&#8217;t had the luxury of taking BOTH longboards before. Swanky!<\/p>\n<p>Cowells was slow and sweet. I got man long, mellow rides in with long mellow paddles back out. I was beyond beat. It&#8217;s amazing how fast one gets out of shape.<\/p>\n<p>The drive was beaut. The surf was firing all along the coast. I saw whales spouting, barrels being thrown, and some of the most beautiful sunsparkled mist I&#8217;ve seen in a while. Great day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surf: Slow, mellow knee-waist high waves. Clean. 6ft @ 14s from W 278\u00c2\u00ba Nice to be back in the water after my work trip. The surf was plenty big in the city and, after almost 2 weeks dry, I figured a mellow SC session was in store. Shannon also had SC on her mind. We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2011\/01\/welcome-home-cowells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome home, Cowells&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,25,24],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-ji","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}