{"id":101142,"date":"2014-12-07T19:28:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T02:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101142"},"modified":"2014-12-07T19:28:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T02:28:24","slug":"surfer-poll-kelly-slater-finally-passes-the-torch-to-john-john-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101142","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Poll &#8211; Kelly Slater finally passes the torch to John John Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The young Hawaiian becomes just the fourth poll winner in 30 years<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kelly Slater officially passed the torch to Hawaiian John John Florence Friday night during a classy speech at the 45th Annual Surfer Poll Awards. For the first time since 2004 somebody other than Slater took the top spot on the hallowed award, which is surfing\u2019s version of MVP voting. Slater has topped the poll 19 times in the last 21 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, there it is!\u201d an emotional Slater said\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/surf\/post\/surfer-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young Hawaiian becomes just the fourth poll winner in 30 years Kelly Slater officially passed the torch to Hawaiian John John Florence Friday night during a classy speech at the 45th Annual Surfer Poll Awards. For the first time since 2004 somebody other than Slater took the top spot on the hallowed award, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101143,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101142\/revisions\/101143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}