{"id":133657,"date":"2017-07-10T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=133657"},"modified":"2017-07-10T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:00:07","slug":"video-thousands-paddle-out-in-memory-of-jack-oneill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=133657","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Thousands paddle out in memory of Jack O&#8217;Neill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of anonymous surfers have paddled out in honor of surf legend and wetsuit pioneer Jack O&#8217;Neill, in Santa Cruz, California.<\/p>\n<p>He was a visionary and one of the dearest symbols of surfing. Jack O&#8217;Neill, the father of the modern wetsuit, died at 94, but his legacy will inspire future generations.<\/p>\n<p>On July 9, 2017, around 2,500 surfers paddled out at Pleasure Point, California, to pay tribute to the bearded surf pirate. After forming a circle in the ocean, they all splashed and threw flowers in the water.<\/p>\n<p>But there were also &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/13745-thousands-paddle-out-in-memory-of-jack-oneill?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fsurfing+%28Surf+News+%7C+SurferToday.com%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wila4XT7yCI?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of anonymous surfers have paddled out in honor of surf legend and wetsuit pioneer Jack O&#8217;Neill, in Santa Cruz, California. He was a visionary and one of the dearest symbols of surfing. Jack O&#8217;Neill, the father of the modern wetsuit, died at 94, but his legacy will inspire future generations. On July 9, 2017, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54,11,81,18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding","category-misc","category-scuba-diving-snorkeling","category-surf","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133657","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=133657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133658,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133657\/revisions\/133658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}