{"id":104540,"date":"2015-03-22T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=104540"},"modified":"2015-03-22T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T17:25:07","slug":"the-first-king-of-the-waves-duke-kahanamoku-brought-surfing-to-nz-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=104540","title":{"rendered":"The first king of the waves, Duke Kahanamoku brought surfing to NZ 100 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years before Kelly Slater, Duke Kahanamoku ruled the waves. Tom Hunt reports on the day he brought surfing to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>In their best suits and dresses, Wellingtonians trundled in trams along Onepu Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Clutching their sun umbrellas, they were out in their thousands for a day at Lyall Bay beach.<\/p>\n<p>A southerly blast had died away and something special was happening on Wellington&#8217;s south coast\u00a0 ..\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/capital-life\/67466266\/Flashback-The-first-king-of-the-waves-Duke-Kahanamoku-brought-surfing-to-NZ-100-years-ago\" 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>Years before Kelly Slater, Duke Kahanamoku ruled the waves. Tom Hunt reports on the day he brought surfing to New Zealand. In their best suits and dresses, Wellingtonians trundled in trams along Onepu Rd. Clutching their sun umbrellas, they were out in their thousands for a day at Lyall Bay beach. A southerly blast had [&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-104540","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\/104540","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=104540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104541,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104540\/revisions\/104541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}