{"id":107770,"date":"2015-07-02T18:34:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=107770"},"modified":"2015-07-02T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T01:35:42","slug":"video-how-surfings-most-valuable-artifacts-came-to-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=107770","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; How Surfing\u2019s Most Valuable Artifacts came to Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To a dispassionate or incurious eye, they are merely two planks of gray weathered wood, something you might come across moldering in the brush behind a log pile at someone\u2019s Santa Cruz Mountains cabin.<\/p>\n<p>But through the eyes of Kim Stoner or Geoffrey Dunn or Bob Pearson or Barney Langner or any number of surfers and\/or spectators at a special ceremony at the Museum of Art &amp; History last Thursday, these two planks of wood carry a staggering cultural meaning. In the world of surfing, they are the Rosetta Stone, the Shroud of Turin, the Hammer of Thor. They are the paintings on the cave walls at Lascaux, Shakespeare\u2019s first folio, Babe Ruth\u2019s first bat.<\/p>\n<p>They are the First Surfboards\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/arts-and-entertainment\/20150701\/how-surfings-valuable-artifacts-came-to-santa-cruz\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQaUNhsmrKw?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a dispassionate or incurious eye, they are merely two planks of gray weathered wood, something you might come across moldering in the brush behind a log pile at someone\u2019s Santa Cruz Mountains cabin. But through the eyes of Kim Stoner or Geoffrey Dunn or Bob Pearson or Barney Langner or any number of surfers [&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-107770","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\/107770","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=107770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107772,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107770\/revisions\/107772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}