{"id":4172,"date":"2015-05-06T06:50:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2015-05-18T13:16:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:16:20","slug":"cowells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2015\/05\/cowells\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4178\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2015\/05\/cowells\/2015-scc-05-06\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-SCC-05-06.jpg?fit=1796%2C1796&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1796,1796\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1430902746&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0001009998990001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2015-SCC-05-06\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-SCC-05-06.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-SCC-05-06.jpg?fit=525%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-SCC-05-06.jpg?resize=525%2C525\" alt=\"2015-SCC-05-06\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-SCC-05-06.jpg?w=1796&amp;ssl=1 1796w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-SCC-05-06.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-SCC-05-06.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-SCC-05-06.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-SCC-05-06.jpg?w=1575 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surf: 9.5 ft at 10.8 s from the NW at 317\u00c2\u00b0. Low tide. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a moment after convincing a friend to get up super early and drive to Santa Cruz when I think &#8220;shoot, I hope the surf isn&#8217;t total crap.&#8221; I pretty much worry about this the whole ride down. Thankfully, there was still a bit of the swell from earlier in the week, the weather was warm, and the waves were nice and long. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t surfed the west side in a long time. Aside from the usual Cowells crowd, it was just lovely. Long cruisey waves, waves with a little bit of size, and waves with a little bit of pep (sometimes all at the same time even.) I got a little bit of stepping in, a lot of sneaking around sections, but mostly a lot of exercise paddling around and around. I&#8217;m so out of shape. Must surf more to get ready for June&#8217;s surf camp trip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surf: 9.5 ft at 10.8 s from the NW at 317\u00c2\u00b0. Low tide. There&#8217;s a moment after convincing a friend to get up super early and drive to Santa Cruz when I think &#8220;shoot, I hope the surf isn&#8217;t total crap.&#8221; I pretty much worry about this the whole ride down. Thankfully, there was still &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2015\/05\/cowells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;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":[5,25,36,24],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6YKrJ-cowells","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172"}],"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=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4186,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions\/4186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}