{"id":124933,"date":"2016-11-20T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=124933"},"modified":"2016-11-20T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:24:29","slug":"surf-science-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=124933","title":{"rendered":"Surf Science: Why it Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Two California professors are changing our sport for the better<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p>The sight of a grown man paddling his ass off in pursuit of a dangling tennis ball was almost too much to stand.<\/p>\n<p>I was <em>this<\/em> close to shouting, \u201cGood boy, go get it!\u201d But I didn\u2019t, because the grown man was Taylor Knox.<\/p>\n<p>At 45 years old, the 20-year CT veteran is a fitness aficionado, evidenced by his barrel-chested appearance and 185 pounds of raw American muscle. Taylor works out 6 to 10 hours per week on top of his 15 hours of ocean time. Despite his warm demeano\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingmagazine.com\/news\/surf-science-matters\/#2yWILwVczzXDPDsM.97\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two California professors are changing our sport for the better The sight of a grown man paddling his ass off in pursuit of a dangling tennis ball was almost too much to stand. I was this close to shouting, \u201cGood boy, go get it!\u201d But I didn\u2019t, because the grown man was Taylor Knox. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-nutrition","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124933","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=124933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124934,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124933\/revisions\/124934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}