{"id":132410,"date":"2017-06-02T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132410"},"modified":"2017-06-02T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T01:52:10","slug":"surfing-oneill-founder-jack-oneill-passes-away-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132410","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; O\u2019Neill Founder Jack O\u2019Neill passes away at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O\u2019Neill surf brand founder, wetsuit pioneer, and surfing icon Jack O\u2019Neill passed away Friday at age 94, several sources confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neill is credited with introducing the first neoprene\u00a0wetsuits to the surf community in the 1950s, which opened up the world of cold water surfing and forever changed the industry and product evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Referred to as a \u201cNorCal Maverick,\u201d O\u2019Neill created his namesake surf brand in 1952 when he opened a surf shop in San Francisco\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/transworld-business\/oneill-founder-jack-oneill-passes-away-94\/#2UxdvdsfZRqeAFuD.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>O\u2019Neill surf brand founder, wetsuit pioneer, and surfing icon Jack O\u2019Neill passed away Friday at age 94, several sources confirmed. O\u2019Neill is credited with introducing the first neoprene\u00a0wetsuits to the surf community in the 1950s, which opened up the world of cold water surfing and forever changed the industry and product evolution. Referred to as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132410","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=132410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132411,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132410\/revisions\/132411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}