{"id":111771,"date":"2015-10-30T20:44:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T03:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=111771"},"modified":"2015-10-30T20:44:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T03:44:35","slug":"surf-for-love-not-for-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=111771","title":{"rendered":"Surf for Love, Not for Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE New England missionaries who began arriving in Hawaii in 1820 were horrified to find, as they sailed in, people surfing. \u201cSome of our number, with gushing tears, turned away from the spectacle,\u201d wrote Hiram Bingham, the missionaries\u2019 leader. This devastating display of half-nude \u201cbarbarism\u201d \u2014 really, it was the ancient practice of he\u2019e nalu, which was rich in traditional religious meaning \u2014 clearly had to be stamped out. Twenty-seven years later, with Hawaiian culture being destroyed by changes that the missionaries helped set in motion, Bingham wrote with satisfaction of the \u201cdecline and discontinuance of the surfboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, surfing was never fully extinguished. A handful of Hawaiians, notably Duke Kahanamoku\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/01\/opinion\/sunday\/surf-for-love-not-for-gold.html?_r=0\" 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>THE New England missionaries who began arriving in Hawaii in 1820 were horrified to find, as they sailed in, people surfing. \u201cSome of our number, with gushing tears, turned away from the spectacle,\u201d wrote Hiram Bingham, the missionaries\u2019 leader. This devastating display of half-nude \u201cbarbarism\u201d \u2014 really, it was the ancient practice of he\u2019e nalu, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111771","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=111771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111772,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111771\/revisions\/111772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}