{"id":144661,"date":"2018-08-21T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=144661"},"modified":"2018-08-21T19:29:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:29:07","slug":"surfing-has-just-become-the-official-state-sport-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=144661","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Has Just Become the Official State Sport of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;No other sport represents the California Dream better than surfing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that named surfing to be the official sport of California.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by CBS News, author of the surfing history book \u201cSweetness and Blood\u201d Michael Scott Moore agrees that \u201calthough Hawaii is the cradle of surfing, California did play a key role in revolutionizing the sport.\u201d California is\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adventuresportsnetwork.com\/sport\/surf\/california-governor-declares-surfing-as-the-states-sport\/\" 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>&#8220;No other sport represents the California Dream better than surfing.&#8221; On Monday, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that named surfing to be the official sport of California. As reported by CBS News, author of the surfing history book \u201cSweetness and Blood\u201d Michael Scott Moore agrees that \u201calthough Hawaii is the cradle of surfing, California [&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-144661","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\/144661","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=144661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144662,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144661\/revisions\/144662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}