{"id":156822,"date":"2020-04-02T20:34:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=156822"},"modified":"2020-04-02T20:34:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:34:50","slug":"are-surfing-and-other-ocean-activities-safe-during-a-health-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=156822","title":{"rendered":"Are surfing and other ocean activities safe during a health crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a growing debate over whether surfing should be allowed during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A news story from San Diego quotes a scientist who says coronavirus droplets could be spreading in the sea breeze. That scientist hasn\u2019t returned our inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>But Hawaii\u2019s health director, a surfer himself, isn\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI disagree with that,\u201d said Dr. Bruce Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think surfing by its very nature reinforces\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2020\/04\/02\/is-surfing-other-ocean-activities-safe-during-health-crisis-most-experts-say-yes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/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>There\u2019s a growing debate over whether surfing should be allowed during the coronavirus pandemic. A news story from San Diego quotes a scientist who says coronavirus droplets could be spreading in the sea breeze. That scientist hasn\u2019t returned our inquiries. But Hawaii\u2019s health director, a surfer himself, isn\u2019t buying it. \u201cI disagree with that,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,54,72,28,33,11,18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-bodyboarding","category-fitness-nutrition","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-kiteboard","category-misc","category-surf","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156822","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=156822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156823,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156822\/revisions\/156823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}