{"id":160083,"date":"2021-01-06T20:25:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T03:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160083"},"modified":"2021-01-06T20:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T03:28:27","slug":"the-state-of-surfing-in-sanya-the-hawaii-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160083","title":{"rendered":"The State of Surfing in Sanya, the Hawaii of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSurf culture in China is younger and more chill than say some places like France,\u201d Benjamin Bocage tells us over a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Bocage recently moved to Sanya a few months ago when a friend asked him if he was interested in helping open up a surf club in Houhai Village. He had worked in the wine business in the city but decided he was ready for a change of pace last year.<\/p>\n<p>Bocage first visited Hainan in 2013 and discovered Riyue Bay, a popular surfing destination, which is also home to China\u2019s national surfing team. He loved it and ended up &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsmags.com\/tianjin\/post\/31962\/the-state-of-surfing-in-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSurf culture in China is younger and more chill than say some places like France,\u201d Benjamin Bocage tells us over a cup of coffee. Bocage recently moved to Sanya a few months ago when a friend asked him if he was interested in helping open up a surf club in Houhai Village. He had worked [&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-160083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160083","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=160083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160088,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160083\/revisions\/160088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}