{"id":8,"date":"2008-05-10T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=8"},"modified":"2010-11-16T22:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T05:30:47","slug":"back-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/05\/back-in-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the water!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/tracey_kate\/pic\/000024hp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/tracey_kate\/pic\/000024hp\/s320x240\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conditions:<\/strong> Medium\/small waves, pretty consistent sets with a little wind*<br \/>\n<strong>Gear: <\/strong>Soft Top rental board from <a href=\"http:\/\/norcalsurfshop.stores.yahoo.net\/\">NorCal Surf Shop<\/a> plus some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcelwetsuits.com\/surf\/index.php?area=products\">Xcel 3mm Split Toe Infiniti Booties<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time to test the skills I learned in class out on my own. Lauren and I rented some boards and wetsuits from Nor Cal. For anyone interested, Nor Cal is close to the beach. Walk in, pay $28 for a board and a suit, and you&#8217;re good to go. It&#8217;s worth buying the booties. Rocks are sharp.<\/p>\n<p>It was over all a nice day. Surfing without the instructors isn&#8217;t as easy as I&#8217;d hoped. I&#8217;m still kneeling to standing instead of popping up. Paddling out is still hard, but I&#8217;m getting a lot of practice in.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, my nail polish and board match. No, that was not intentional. Serendipity and surfing go hand in hand.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Probably on the smaller side of 3-5ft and breezy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditions: Medium\/small waves, pretty consistent sets with a little wind* Gear: Soft Top rental board from NorCal Surf Shop plus some Xcel 3mm Split Toe Infiniti Booties Time to test the skills I learned in class out on my own. Lauren and I rented some boards and wetsuits from Nor Cal. For anyone interested, Nor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/05\/back-in-the-water\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back in the water!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[5,58,6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}