{"id":134133,"date":"2017-07-24T13:41:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=134133"},"modified":"2017-07-24T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:41:38","slug":"the-latest-and-lightest-way-to-build-a-surfboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=134133","title":{"rendered":"The latest and lightest way to build a surfboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfers often follow a herd mentality. (Haven\u2019t you noticed that every time you pick an empty beachbreak peak to paddle out at, someone will paddle up right next to you rather than to the identical empty peak down the beach?) For better or for worse, we tend to pick surfcraft the same way: by riding whatever looks safe and familiar instead of experimenting with exotic shapes and materials.<\/p>\n<p>Former aerospace engineer Edison Conner and business wiz Parker Borneman have been doing their best to change that mindset by reimagining the way surfboards are engineered from the inside out. You\u2019ve probably heard of their company, Varial Surf Technology, which made a\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfer.com\/blogs\/design-forum\/varial-foam-featherweight-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfers often follow a herd mentality. (Haven\u2019t you noticed that every time you pick an empty beachbreak peak to paddle out at, someone will paddle up right next to you rather than to the identical empty peak down the beach?) For better or for worse, we tend to pick surfcraft the same way: by riding [&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-134133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134133","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=134133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134134,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134133\/revisions\/134134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}