{"id":132210,"date":"2017-05-28T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132210"},"modified":"2017-05-28T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:50:10","slug":"founder-of-surfer-magazine-john-severson-passes-away-at-age-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132210","title":{"rendered":"Founder of SURFER Magazine John Severson passes away at age 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIP John Severson: 1933-2017<\/p>\n<p>It is with a heavy heart that we announce John Severson, Founder of SURFER Magazine and patriarch of modern surf media, passed away Friday evening in his sleep. He was 83 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Born in December of 1933 in Los Angeles, Severson began surfing at age 13 after his family moved to San Clemente. He released his first film, Surf, while serving in the U.S. Army in Honolulu. Severson would join Bruce Brown, Bud Browne, and Greg Noll as surfing\u2019s original filmmakers in the late \u201950s and early \u201960s, touring productions like Surf Fever, Big Wednesday, and Going My Wave up and down the California coastline\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfer.com\/features\/rip-john-severson-1933-2017\/#p8OHD1c5g5o9iMHl.97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP John Severson: 1933-2017 It is with a heavy heart that we announce John Severson, Founder of SURFER Magazine and patriarch of modern surf media, passed away Friday evening in his sleep. He was 83 years old. Born in December of 1933 in Los Angeles, Severson began surfing at age 13 after his family moved [&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-132210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132210","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=132210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132212,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132210\/revisions\/132212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}