{"id":154597,"date":"2019-12-21T19:55:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T02:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=154597"},"modified":"2019-12-21T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T02:55:19","slug":"john-john-florence-beats-out-kelly-slater-for-last-olympic-surfing-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=154597","title":{"rendered":"John John Florence beats out Kelly Slater for last Olympic surfing spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUPUKEA, Hawaii &#8212; John John Florence of Oahu&#8217;s North Shore returned from knee surgery to take the final spot on the inaugural U.S. Olympic surfing team after 11-time world champion Kelly Slater lost in the semifinals of the World Surf League Pipe Masters at Banzai Pipeline on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Although Florence, 27, missed the previous five contests while recovering from ACL surgery, he came into the final event with\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/28336575\/john-john-florence-beats-kelly-slater-last-olympic-surfing-spot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Complete Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUPUKEA, Hawaii &#8212; John John Florence of Oahu&#8217;s North Shore returned from knee surgery to take the final spot on the inaugural U.S. Olympic surfing team after 11-time world champion Kelly Slater lost in the semifinals of the World Surf League Pipe Masters at Banzai Pipeline on Thursday. Although Florence, 27, missed the previous five [&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-154597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154597","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=154597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154598,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154597\/revisions\/154598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}