{"id":132465,"date":"2017-06-03T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T03:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132465"},"modified":"2017-06-03T20:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T03:32:40","slug":"surfing-in-the-vietnam-war-how-catching-waves-saved-these-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132465","title":{"rendered":"Surfing in the Vietnam War | How Catching Waves Saved These Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>California Surf Museum\u2019s new exhibition is dedicated to the surfer-soldiers that caught waves moments from the battlefield, and teaches how surfing can heal both physically and mentally<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During and after the Vietnam War a group of soldiers found a way to break free from the atrocities of the frontline \u2013 through surfing and surf culture. Seventy-one-year-old Vietnam veteran Rick Thomas is known for being one of the founding fathers of paddle boarding, but what many don\u2019t know is that he\u2019s also a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder councillor, and a firm believer that surfing can treat trauma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been surfing for 65 years,\u201d says Thomas, who was born and learned to surf in Waikiki, Honolulu. Surfing is\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/mpora.com\/surfing\/surfing-vietnam-war-catching-waves-saved-soldiers\" 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>California Surf Museum\u2019s new exhibition is dedicated to the surfer-soldiers that caught waves moments from the battlefield, and teaches how surfing can heal both physically and mentally During and after the Vietnam War a group of soldiers found a way to break free from the atrocities of the frontline \u2013 through surfing and surf culture. [&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-132465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132465","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=132465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132466,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132465\/revisions\/132466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}