{"id":110238,"date":"2015-09-15T21:16:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=110238"},"modified":"2015-09-15T21:16:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:16:53","slug":"can-surfing-reprogram-the-veterans-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=110238","title":{"rendered":"Can Surfing Reprogram the Veteran\u2019s Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>There&#8217;s no quick fix for post-traumatic stress disorder, but research has shown that surfing&#8217;s physicality and flow can give victims some relief and a way forward. The author hit the water with his close friend Brian, a former Navy SEAL whose service in Afghanistan beat up his body, tortured his mind, and pushed him into a zone where violence\u2014against himself or others\u2014seemed inevitable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Four men in camouflage fatigues stop our car. \u201cID,\u201d one says.<\/p>\n<p>I pull out my wallet and hand him my license.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019re you doing on base?\u201d the soldier asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going surfing,\u201d I tell him, nodding at the boards stacked in the back of the car. He glances at my friend, in the passenger seat, who I\u2019ll call\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2015801\/trim-toward-light-ptsd-surf-therapy\" 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>There&#8217;s no quick fix for post-traumatic stress disorder, but research has shown that surfing&#8217;s physicality and flow can give victims some relief and a way forward. The author hit the water with his close friend Brian, a former Navy SEAL whose service in Afghanistan beat up his body, tortured his mind, and pushed him into [&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-110238","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\/110238","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=110238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110239,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110238\/revisions\/110239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}