{"id":101932,"date":"2015-01-02T12:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T19:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101932"},"modified":"2015-01-02T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T19:47:46","slug":"stoked-news-hero-the-extraordinary-surfing-life-of-duke-kahanamoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101932","title":{"rendered":"The extraordinary surfing life of Duke Kahanamoku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku was born on the 24th August, 1890, in Honolulu, Hawaii, just a few months prior to King David Kalakaua&#8217;s death, when political tension was taking over the country&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Kahanamoku, nicknamed &#8220;The Duke&#8221; and &#8220;The Big Kahuna,&#8221; is considered to be the father of modern surfing. The Hawaiian won five Olympic medals as a swimmer, but he also showed off in the movie industry, politics, and business life.<\/p>\n<p>Duke had five brothers and three sisters. His father was a policeman, and his mother was a religious woman. In his first years, Duke impressed with his swimming skills and rapidly started winning competitions to become\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/11323-the-extraordinary-surfing-life-of-duke-kahanamoku?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fsurfing+%28Surfing+News+%7C+SurferToday.com%29\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku was born on the 24th August, 1890, in Honolulu, Hawaii, just a few months prior to King David Kalakaua&#8217;s death, when political tension was taking over the country&#8217;s capital. Kahanamoku, nicknamed &#8220;The Duke&#8221; and &#8220;The Big Kahuna,&#8221; is considered to be the father of modern surfing. The Hawaiian won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hero-of-stoked-news","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101932","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=101932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101935,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101932\/revisions\/101935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}