{"id":113976,"date":"2016-01-04T07:32:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=113976"},"modified":"2016-01-04T07:32:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:32:47","slug":"iconic-surfboard-shaper-larry-gordon-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=113976","title":{"rendered":"Iconic surfboard shaper Larry Gordon passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Gordon, the co-founder of Gordon &amp; Smith Surfboards, passed away at the age of 76.<\/p>\n<p>He is considered one of the pioneers of the modern foam surfboard. Gordon was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1939. Because he suffered from asthma, his family moved to Southern California when he was only three. He started surfing as a teenager in Pacific Beach and started his business at only 20\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/12492-iconic-surfboard-shaper-larry-gordon-passes-away-at-76?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fsurfing+%28Surfing+News+|+SurferToday.com%29\" 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>Larry Gordon, the co-founder of Gordon &amp; Smith Surfboards, passed away at the age of 76. He is considered one of the pioneers of the modern foam surfboard. Gordon was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1939. Because he suffered from asthma, his family moved to Southern California when he was only three. He started surfing [&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-113976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113976","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=113976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113977,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113976\/revisions\/113977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}