{"id":10038,"date":"2013-05-05T11:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T05:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2013-05-05T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T06:00:05","slug":"jhonty-rhodes-in-kovalam-trivandrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/jhonty-rhodes-in-kovalam-trivandrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhonty Rhodes in Kovalam, Trivandrum."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendry cricketer <strong>Jhonty Rhodes<\/strong> was at Hawa Beach, Kovalam, on Friday to inaugurate <a title=\"Trivandrum to host India\u2019s 1st Surfing and SUP competition\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/trivandrum-to-host-surfing-and-sup-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\">India\u2019s first ever national surfing and stand up paddle (SUP) competition.<\/a> The South African cricketer proved that he is as skilled in surfing as in cricket.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Photo Feature: India\u2019s 1st Surfing and SUP competition at Kovalam\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/indias-1st-surfing-and-sup-competition-at-kovalam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Feature: India\u2019s 1st Surfing and SUP competition at Kovalam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jhonty Rhodes who is the International Surfing Ambassador of India says &#8220;\u201cWhen cricket players play a great game for the million dollar contracts they sign, surfers do it for the cool factor associated with the sport\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The event attracted hordes of cricket lovers and surfers to Kovalam to see their star inaugurating the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been surfing for about 7 to 8 years. I have struggled a little bit. But surfing brings smile to the faces of people whether it is in India, South Africa, and Australia or in Europe. Surfing brings out a contentment and it\u2019s about enjoying what we do,\u201d Jhonty told the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The surfing contest turned out to be a huge success with huge turn out who came to watch the rare spectacle. With this event, it&#8217;s sure that Kovalam has a place of its own in the international surfing map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendry cricketer Jhonty Rhodes was at Hawa Beach, Kovalam, on Friday to inaugurate India\u2019s first ever national surfing and stand up paddle (SUP) competition. The South African cricketer proved that he is as skilled in surfing as in cricket. Photo Feature: India\u2019s 1st Surfing and SUP competition at Kovalam Jhonty Rhodes who is the International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":10039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[88,452],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-kovalam","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}