{"id":158280,"date":"2020-07-19T18:50:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T01:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158280"},"modified":"2020-07-19T18:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T01:50:24","slug":"surfing-for-something-positive-black-girls-surf-and-the-rising-tide-of-equal-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158280","title":{"rendered":"Surfing for \u201cSomething Positive\u201d: Black Girls Surf and the Rising Tide of Equal Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHas society changed with black women surfing? Of course. Are we excited about it? Oh, more than you know.\u201d\u00a0&#8211; J.D. Simkins \u00a0\u2013 July 16, 2020 | Updated July 19, 2020 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rhonda Harper was still relatively new to the surfing scene in 1987 when, as she left the beach in California\u2019s historic Santa Cruz, she returned to find the words \u201cGo home n\u2014\u2013\u201d written across her car in wax.<\/p>\n<p>The message was clear, and it supplied a rude awakening for one who had spent her teenage years basking in the sun on the pristine beaches of Hawaii\u2019s North Shore, where Harper says she \u201cnever\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunset.com\/travel\/wild-lands\/black-girls-surf-rides-wave-equal-treatment?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Sunset%20Weekend%20Newsletter%20%28Actives%29%202020-07-19&amp;utm_content=Final&amp;utm_term=SUN%20Weekly%20NL:%20Actives\" 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>\u201cHas society changed with black women surfing? Of course. Are we excited about it? Oh, more than you know.\u201d\u00a0&#8211; J.D. Simkins \u00a0\u2013 July 16, 2020 | Updated July 19, 2020 Rhonda Harper was still relatively new to the surfing scene in 1987 when, as she left the beach in California\u2019s historic Santa Cruz, she returned [&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-158280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158280","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=158280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158281,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158280\/revisions\/158281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}