{"id":13089,"date":"2009-05-24T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13089"},"modified":"2009-05-24T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T15:01:16","slug":"surfing-travel-volunteer-vacations-for-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13089","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Travel &#8211; Volunteer vacations for surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To the east towered hills so thick with rain forest I was sure dinosaurs were lurking inside. To the west, warm turquoise waves peeled and feathered like a snippet from &#8220;Endless Summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was the first day of our monthlong bungalow stay in Punta Banco, Costa Rica (population: maybe 200). And after a bumpy nine-hour bus ride from San Jose, before I even unpacked my bags, I grabbed my board and surfed happily through the waning daylight hours, singing the praises of the Latin surf gods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All was perfect, at least until the next day&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/05\/22\/TRLM16OSMK.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the east towered hills so thick with rain forest I was sure dinosaurs were lurking inside. To the west, warm turquoise waves peeled and feathered like a snippet from &#8220;Endless Summer.&#8221; It was the first day of our monthlong bungalow stay in Punta Banco, Costa Rica (population: maybe 200). And after a bumpy nine-hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089","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=13089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13092,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089\/revisions\/13092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}