{"id":138222,"date":"2017-12-17T10:05:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=138222"},"modified":"2017-12-17T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T17:05:06","slug":"the-short-history-of-surf-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=138222","title":{"rendered":"The Short History Of Surf Tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earliest known tattoos date back to 3300BC. They adorn Otzi the Iceman, who was found on the Italy\/Austria border, frozen in a glacier. Otzi had tatts that corresponded closely to bone problems in his ankles and back, perhaps indicating they had an acupuncture-type function. He probably owned a sled, but it\u2019s highly unlikely he surfed.<\/p>\n<p>Tattooing was prohibited in 500BC by the Book of Leviticus. If you think that sounds definitive, Leviticus also prohibited handling pigs, eating crayfish, and having sex with your sister.<\/p>\n<p>The intersection of tattooing and surfing is harder to pinpoint\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/surfingworld.com.au\/short-history-surf-tattoos\/\" 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>The earliest known tattoos date back to 3300BC. They adorn Otzi the Iceman, who was found on the Italy\/Austria border, frozen in a glacier. Otzi had tatts that corresponded closely to bone problems in his ankles and back, perhaps indicating they had an acupuncture-type function. He probably owned a sled, but it\u2019s highly unlikely he [&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-138222","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\/138222","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=138222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138223,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138222\/revisions\/138223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}