{"id":125157,"date":"2016-11-26T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=125157"},"modified":"2016-11-26T10:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:03:58","slug":"the-new-hawaii-surfers-flock-to-taiwan-an-island-nation-that-fears-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=125157","title":{"rendered":"The new Hawaii? Surfers flock to Taiwan, an island nation that fears the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Typhoon swell and a host of surf spots have put a fishing village on the pro-circuit \u2013 a big change for a culture whose unease with China created an aversion to the ocean<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Set against a backdrop of lush green mountains sweeping down to a Pacific ocean swell, the village of Jinzun Harbour reminds some surfers of old-school Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>It is quite a claim to make about this quiet fishing community, and not just because it has only a nascent surfing scene. This village is in Taiwan, an island nation that for generations has had an unusual fear of the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Yet last week Jinzun came alive as more than 200 surfers\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/nov\/26\/surfers-flock-to-taiwan-island-nation-fears-sea\" 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>Typhoon swell and a host of surf spots have put a fishing village on the pro-circuit \u2013 a big change for a culture whose unease with China created an aversion to the ocean Set against a backdrop of lush green mountains sweeping down to a Pacific ocean swell, the village of Jinzun Harbour reminds some [&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-125157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125157","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=125157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125158,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125157\/revisions\/125158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}