{"id":10921,"date":"2009-04-30T12:46:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10921"},"modified":"2009-04-30T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:47:03","slug":"surfing-fundraiser-justin-beard-surfers-for-autism-ready-to-hit-the-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10921","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Fundraiser &#8211; Justin Beard: Surfers for Autism ready to hit the waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A few years back, Deerfield Beach resident Lou Rodas decided to take his younger brother, Sebastian, surfing with him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lou and his friends took turns pushing Sebastian into wave after wave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They watched in amazement at how quickly Sebastian \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an autistic child who has trouble socializing with others \u00e2\u20ac\u201d caught the surfing bug.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Like Sebastian, most autistic children &#8230; tend to keep to themselves, but once you get them on a surfboard&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/30\/justin-beard-surfers-autism-ready-hit-waves\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, Deerfield Beach resident Lou Rodas decided to take his younger brother, Sebastian, surfing with him. Lou and his friends took turns pushing Sebastian into wave after wave. They watched in amazement at how quickly Sebastian \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an autistic child who has trouble socializing with others \u00e2\u20ac\u201d caught the surfing bug. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921","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=10921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10924,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions\/10924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}