{"id":122245,"date":"2016-09-05T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122245"},"modified":"2016-09-05T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T16:00:38","slug":"tom-morey-and-friends-celebrate-the-45th-anniversary-of-the-bodyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122245","title":{"rendered":"Tom Morey and friends celebrate the 45th anniversary of the bodyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of legendary bodyboarders has celebrated the creation of the bodyboard with a meeting at T-Street, in San Clement, California.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-five years ago, in 1971, Tom Morey cut a rectangular shape of polyethylene foam and covered it with newspaper. The bodyboard and bodyboarding, and a whole new sport, had been born.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-five years later, Pat Caldwell, Mike Stewart, Keith Sasaki, Manny V, Jay Reale, Kavan Okumura, Jena Metzger-Roghair, JP Patterson, Tom Prince, Brian Press, and many other anonymous bodyboarders met with Tom Morey at T-Street to\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/bodyboarding\/13037-tom-morey-and-friends-celebrate-the-45th-anniversary-of-the-bodyboard?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fbodyboarding+%28Bodyboarding+News+%7C+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>A group of legendary bodyboarders has celebrated the creation of the bodyboard with a meeting at T-Street, in San Clement, California. Forty-five years ago, in 1971, Tom Morey cut a rectangular shape of polyethylene foam and covered it with newspaper. The bodyboard and bodyboarding, and a whole new sport, had been born. Forty-five years later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122245","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=122245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122246,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122245\/revisions\/122246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}