{"id":122646,"date":"2016-09-15T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T03:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122646"},"modified":"2016-09-15T20:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T03:52:24","slug":"this-is-why-hawaiians-and-americans-are-recognized-separately-in-pro-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122646","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; This Is Why Hawaiians and Americans Are Recognized Separately in Pro Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started as plain curiosity. A lot like Peter Mel in the clip below, I turned to my friends\u00a0in <em>The Inertia<\/em> office. \u201cWhy are Hawaiians recognized differently than Americans in the WSL?\u201d I felt like I was left out of an insider\u2019s secret. But, as it turns out, none of us knew.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d published articles in the past about how it <em>is. <\/em>I recently wrote about how Hawaiians have competed as Americans in the Olympics, how it\u2019s distinct in surfing, and what all that might mean.\u00a0But collectively, we never quite got to the bottom of\u00a0how exactly this distinction came to be in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>So, I began a little quest\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/this-is-why-hawaiians-and-americans-are-recognized-separately-in-pro-surfing\/#modal-close\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZB_z1ETB3g?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started as plain curiosity. A lot like Peter Mel in the clip below, I turned to my friends\u00a0in The Inertia office. \u201cWhy are Hawaiians recognized differently than Americans in the WSL?\u201d I felt like I was left out of an insider\u2019s secret. But, as it turns out, none of us knew. We\u2019d published articles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-video_games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122646","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=122646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122649,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122646\/revisions\/122649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}