{"id":2772,"date":"2013-04-22T05:51:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2013-05-27T22:44:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T05:44:41","slug":"bigger-softer-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2013\/04\/bigger-softer-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger, softer waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-LM-04-22.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2878\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2013\/04\/bigger-softer-waves\/2013-lm-04-22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-LM-04-22.jpg?fit=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2013-LM-04-22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-LM-04-22.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-LM-04-22.jpg?fit=525%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-LM-04-22.jpg?resize=525%2C525\" alt=\"2013-LM-04-22\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-LM-04-22.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-LM-04-22.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-LM-04-22.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-LM-04-22.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surf: 3.9 ft at 8.3 s from the NW at 310\u00c2\u00b0<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s surf was bigger and softer than it&#8217;s been. Crowded too. With the softness I was really fighting to get into waves. I managed to get a few but they all felt slow. <\/p>\n<p>I had a duck dive that went wrong and I kicked my fin. My whole foot is blue. Having so many fins so close to me means I&#8217;m constantly kicking them. Owwww.<\/p>\n<p>After struggling a while on the bigger wave, I snuggled up to a small left and picked up a few more fun ones. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always the little waves I catch easy, not the big ones. It&#8217;s silly, but I&#8217;ll take it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surf: 3.9 ft at 8.3 s from the NW at 310\u00c2\u00b0 Today&#8217;s surf was bigger and softer than it&#8217;s been. Crowded too. With the softness I was really fighting to get into waves. I managed to get a few but they all felt slow. I had a duck dive that went wrong and I kicked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2013\/04\/bigger-softer-waves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bigger, softer waves&#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":[5,36,58,6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-II","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772"}],"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=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}