{"id":142323,"date":"2018-05-17T19:39:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T02:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=142323"},"modified":"2018-05-17T19:39:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T02:39:39","slug":"the-waikiki-beach-boys-tradition-is-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=142323","title":{"rendered":"The Waikiki beach boys tradition is at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary Waikiki beach boys are being taken over by Dive Oahu, the company which\u00a0won\u00a0two surf concession stands in Honolulu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to move the iconic surf instructors away from the beach could put an end to a 100-year tradition that gave birth to surfing as a sport and pastime.<\/p>\n<p>Dive Oahu is taking over two surf concession stands &#8211; Star Beachboys and Hawaiian Oceans &#8211; and will introduce uniforms and electronic filing systems in the business activity.<\/p>\n<p>The new contractor\u00a0says\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/14334-the-waikiki-beach-boys-tradition-is-at-risk?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>The legendary Waikiki beach boys are being taken over by Dive Oahu, the company which\u00a0won\u00a0two surf concession stands in Honolulu, Hawaii. The decision to move the iconic surf instructors away from the beach could put an end to a 100-year tradition that gave birth to surfing as a sport and pastime. Dive Oahu is taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142323","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=142323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142324,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142323\/revisions\/142324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}