{"id":138748,"date":"2018-01-03T20:03:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=138748"},"modified":"2018-01-03T20:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:03:12","slug":"why-is-huntington-beach-called-surf-city-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=138748","title":{"rendered":"Why is Huntington Beach called Surf City USA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call it a slogan, nickname, tagline or motto. Huntington Beach is Surf City, USA. But what&#8217;s behind that moniker?<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re analyzing it from a marketing, spiritual, political, or historical perspective, the truth is that the United States has four cities calling themselves &#8220;Surf City&#8221;: Huntington Beach, Santa Cruz, Surf City (North Carolina) and Surf City (New Jersey).<\/p>\n<p>Huntington Beach, also affectionately known as\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/14100-why-is-huntington-beach-called-surf-city-usa?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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it a slogan, nickname, tagline or motto. Huntington Beach is Surf City, USA. But what&#8217;s behind that moniker? Whether you&#8217;re analyzing it from a marketing, spiritual, political, or historical perspective, the truth is that the United States has four cities calling themselves &#8220;Surf City&#8221;: Huntington Beach, Santa Cruz, Surf City (North Carolina) and Surf [&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-138748","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\/138748","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=138748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138749,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138748\/revisions\/138749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}