{"id":158519,"date":"2020-08-12T19:45:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T02:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158519"},"modified":"2020-08-12T19:45:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T02:45:54","slug":"why-surfing-made-me-a-better-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158519","title":{"rendered":"Why surfing made me a better person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more you surf, the more you become a better person. Right? Well, at least, that&#8217;s a valid assumption for most of the active surfers out there.<\/p>\n<p>We all know that there&#8217;s a moderate dose of hypocrisy in surfing, but that&#8217;s part of life and who we are.<\/p>\n<p>We shouldn&#8217;t expect a greedy man to share all his waves with his fellow wave riders, but the sport can alter our behavior and habits over time.<\/p>\n<p>Surfing is one of the few sports that depend on\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/why-surfing-made-me-a-better-person\" 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>The more you surf, the more you become a better person. Right? Well, at least, that&#8217;s a valid assumption for most of the active surfers out there. We all know that there&#8217;s a moderate dose of hypocrisy in surfing, but that&#8217;s part of life and who we are. We shouldn&#8217;t expect a greedy man to [&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-158519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158519","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=158519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158520,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158519\/revisions\/158520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}