{"id":121927,"date":"2016-08-26T06:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=121927"},"modified":"2016-08-26T06:48:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T13:48:53","slug":"how-surfing-can-cure-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=121927","title":{"rendered":"How Surfing Can Cure Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Thursday, Gary Katz and Christine paddle out from the shores of Rockaway Beach, Queens, to go surfing. They spend about an hour catching waves before hitting the sand to discuss how things went.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn\u2019t just a chat between two surfers \u2014 it\u2019s therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The idea came to Katz, a licensed social worker who practices in Manhattan, when he turned to surfing three years ago to counteract burnout from working 13-hour days. He found surfing\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/08\/25\/how-surfing-can-cure-depression\/\" 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>Every Thursday, Gary Katz and Christine paddle out from the shores of Rockaway Beach, Queens, to go surfing. They spend about an hour catching waves before hitting the sand to discuss how things went. But this isn\u2019t just a chat between two surfers \u2014 it\u2019s therapy. The idea came to Katz, a licensed social worker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-nutrition","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121927","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=121927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121928,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121927\/revisions\/121928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}