{"id":114187,"date":"2016-01-11T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=114187"},"modified":"2016-01-11T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:40:15","slug":"surf-video-college-then-competition-for-shaun-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=114187","title":{"rendered":"Surf Video &#8211; College, Then Competition for Shaun Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley start-ups often reference companies like Facebook and Uber to help justify their risks. As in, \u201cFacebook didn\u2019t have a revenue stream and now they\u2019re worth billions, so we\u2019ll figure out a way to make money later.\u201d Young surfers \u2014 and their parents \u2014 do the same thing, pointing to anomalies like John Florence and Kolohe Andino to justify skipping the traditional education model in hopes of hitting the CT jackpot. Never mind the vast majority of kids that skip school to pursue professional surfing, only to end up professional serving. At Chilis.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, with sponsorship secured and an NSSA career in the rear view, Santa Cruz\u2019s Shaun Burns was set to hit the QS and go all in on surfing. It\u2019d be him and Nat, reppin\u2019 SC on the big stage. Then a friend\u2019s dad convinced him to\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingmagazine.com\/originals\/college-then-competition\/#Dv9OqQdVuVRFZFL3.97\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/125054235?title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley start-ups often reference companies like Facebook and Uber to help justify their risks. As in, \u201cFacebook didn\u2019t have a revenue stream and now they\u2019re worth billions, so we\u2019ll figure out a way to make money later.\u201d Young surfers \u2014 and their parents \u2014 do the same thing, pointing to anomalies like John Florence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114187","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=114187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114188,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114187\/revisions\/114188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}