{"id":107738,"date":"2015-07-01T19:25:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T02:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=107738"},"modified":"2015-07-01T19:26:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T02:26:26","slug":"first-round-nfl-draft-pick-wont-sign-contract-because-he-wants-to-surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=107738","title":{"rendered":"First-Round NFL Draft Pick Won\u2019t Sign Contract Because He Wants To Surf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">How much money would someone have to pay you to stop surfing?<\/span> Well, for star quarterback Marcus Mariota, apparently that number is somewhere north of 20 million dollars. The Oahu native recently left the Oregon Ducks after winning a coveted Heisman Trophy, only to move on to be a first-round pick by the Tennesee Titans in the 2015 NFL draft. Now, from here, usually the process continues with the team offering you a buttload of money, you sign a few papers, shake a few hands, and go on your way as a new found high-profile professional athlete. But for Mariota, there\u2019s been a few snags in the negotiations of his contract. One of the biggest ones? A no-surfing clause\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingmagazine.com\/news\/first-round-nfl-draft-pick-wont-sign-contract-because-he-wants-to-surf\/\" 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>How much money would someone have to pay you to stop surfing? Well, for star quarterback Marcus Mariota, apparently that number is somewhere north of 20 million dollars. The Oahu native recently left the Oregon Ducks after winning a coveted Heisman Trophy, only to move on to be a first-round pick by the Tennesee Titans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107738","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=107738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107740,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107738\/revisions\/107740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}