{"id":135474,"date":"2017-09-12T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T03:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=135474"},"modified":"2017-09-12T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T03:00:23","slug":"deconstructing-the-rise-of-surfing-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=135474","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing the Rise of Surfing in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing is new to China. Really new. With a population of 1.38 billion people, there are perhaps only 200 local surfers. But with over 9,000 miles of surfable coastline, something was bound to happen sooner or later. In China\u2019s case, it was much later. \u201cI started surfing at three in the afternoon on October 8th, 2008,\u201d notes Pablo Huang, assistant coach of the Chinese National Surf Team. \u201cAll surfers know that the first time you stand up on a board and feel the water moving under your feet, it is a very special feeling. There was a group that learned to surf from an Australian coach in 1985, but after that, everybody gave up. It didn\u2019t stick, so from 2007-2008, that was the official start of the growth of surfing in China.\u201d &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/with-over-9000-miles-of-coastline-something-was-bound-to-happen-deconstructing-the-rise-of-surfing-in-china_149252\/\" 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>Surfing is new to China. Really new. With a population of 1.38 billion people, there are perhaps only 200 local surfers. But with over 9,000 miles of surfable coastline, something was bound to happen sooner or later. In China\u2019s case, it was much later. \u201cI started surfing at three in the afternoon on October 8th, [&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-135474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135474","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=135474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135475,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135474\/revisions\/135475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}