{"id":121284,"date":"2016-08-08T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=121284"},"modified":"2016-08-08T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:09:59","slug":"surfing-and-the-olympics-what-about-the-hawaiians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=121284","title":{"rendered":"Surfing and the Olympics: What About the Hawaiians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I was in Hawaii was in 2008. I know, shame. It was a family trip to Kauai. Summer. In other words, not a surf trip. Inadvertently the\u00a0vacay coincided with the Beijing Olympics. It\u2019s not the worst thing in the world, watching javelin throwing\u00a0whilst beaming with national pride in paradise. Apparently\u00a0the Olympics were poorly planned that year, because they overshadowed the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Waipio Little League from Waipahu, Oahu were crushing it. And everywhere we went people were either tuned into the Series or the Games. In the case of the latter\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/surfing-and-the-olympics-what-about-the-hawaiians\/#modal-close\" 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 last time I was in Hawaii was in 2008. I know, shame. It was a family trip to Kauai. Summer. In other words, not a surf trip. Inadvertently the\u00a0vacay coincided with the Beijing Olympics. It\u2019s not the worst thing in the world, watching javelin throwing\u00a0whilst beaming with national pride in paradise. Apparently\u00a0the Olympics were [&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-121284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121284","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=121284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121285,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121284\/revisions\/121285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}