{"id":145605,"date":"2018-10-05T16:51:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=145605"},"modified":"2018-10-05T16:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:51:27","slug":"the-legendary-black-surfer-who-challenged-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=145605","title":{"rendered":"The Legendary Black Surfer Who Challenged Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In his short 24 years, Nick Gabald\u00f3n made an impact on California surfing culture that is still felt today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On June 5, 1951, 24-year-old Nick Gabald\u00f3n surfed his last wave in Malibu, California, crashing his board and disappearing into the water. In his short life, Gabald\u00f3n made an impact on surfing culture which is still felt today. Credited as being one of the first-documented surfers of African-American and Mexican-American descent, he is remembered as a rebel who challenged the idea of who belongs on California beaches.<\/p>\n<p>On the boardwalk of Santa Monica\u2019s Bay Street Beach, within a small cluster of palm trees, is a small plaque that reads: \u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/who-is-nick-gabaldon-surfer\" 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>In his short 24 years, Nick Gabald\u00f3n made an impact on California surfing culture that is still felt today. On June 5, 1951, 24-year-old Nick Gabald\u00f3n surfed his last wave in Malibu, California, crashing his board and disappearing into the water. In his short life, Gabald\u00f3n made an impact on surfing culture which is still [&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-145605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145605","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=145605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145606,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145605\/revisions\/145606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}