{"id":157228,"date":"2020-04-26T20:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T03:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=157228"},"modified":"2020-04-26T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T03:14:10","slug":"meet-the-man-behind-surf-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=157228","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Man Behind Surf Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What does it take to create the perfect wave? Turns out it\u2019s just a bold, innovative engineer, a team of technicians and a superstar surfer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Past a row of low-slung office buildings where a Culver City street dead-ends, behind the towering skeleton of a high-rise-in-the-making and tucked into the leafy bank of Ballona Creek, lies a small, whitewashed warehouse with a single door. Inside, the small foyer gives way to an airy, high-ceilinged space like many in L.A. \u2014 open-plan cubicles, a conference room with hand sanitizer on the tables, a few potted palms and surfboards for a casual, beachy effect.<\/p>\n<p>But past the cluster of desks, colorful print-outs and whiteboards with indecipherable hand-written equations is something else:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/losangeleno.com\/people\/adam-fincham\/\" 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>What does it take to create the perfect wave? Turns out it\u2019s just a bold, innovative engineer, a team of technicians and a superstar surfer. Past a row of low-slung office buildings where a Culver City street dead-ends, behind the towering skeleton of a high-rise-in-the-making and tucked into the leafy bank of Ballona Creek, lies [&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-157228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157228","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=157228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157229,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157228\/revisions\/157229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}