{"id":439393,"date":"2026-05-22T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/439393\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:28:11","slug":"world-surf-league-new-zealand-pro-brings-big-crowds-to-raglans-manu-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/439393\/","title":{"rendered":"World Surf League New Zealand Pro brings big crowds to Raglan\u2019s Manu Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">It is the first time New Zealand has hosted a combined men\u2019s and women\u2019s championship event, with the competition running until Monday, depending on surf conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gallery__caption\" data-test-ui=\"gallery__caption\">Image 1 of 8: American surfer Griffin Colapinto watches Gabriel Medina, of Brazil. Photo \/ Emma Willecke<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Daily scheduling updates and a visitors\u2019 guide, including transport, maps, and activities happening around Raglan, can be found online at the World Surf League website and social media channels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Emma Willecke is a student at the Waikato Institute of Technology. She is in her first year of studying towards a Bachelor of Communication and in her spare time, likes to catch a wave at Raglan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is the first time New Zealand has hosted a combined men\u2019s and women\u2019s championship event, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1561,1558,8834,1038,18239,26636,685,14731,1446,48955,117,111,43,139,69,51041,220000,7811,18694,61,208,13745,686,377,80],"class_list":["post-439393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bay","tag-been","tag-big","tag-brings","tag-championship","tag-crowds","tag-last","tag-league","tag-making","tag-manu","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pro","tag-raglans","tag-since","tag-surf","tag-to","tag-tour","tag-waves","tag-week","tag-world","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}