{"id":160449,"date":"2021-02-14T17:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T00:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160449"},"modified":"2021-02-14T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T00:36:18","slug":"i-never-wanted-to-be-seen-as-a-black-surfer-just-hunter-the-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160449","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Never Wanted to Be Seen as a Black Surfer \u2014 Just Hunter, the Surfer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sl-editorial-article-heading__subtitle\"><em>An interview with content creator, WSL host and professional surfer, Hunter Jones<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the world feels like it\u2019s on fire, sometimes the best way to douse the flames is a little civil conversation. That\u2019s one thing South Bay surfer Hunter Jones is really good at \u2014 well, that and backside vertical hacks. Following a year where the struggle for racial justice in America has everyone throwing keyboard haymakers at each other, Jones, a biracial surfer and content creator, isn\u2019t afraid to discuss his role as a person of color in a world that has been pearly since white people told Hawaiians not to surf and then steered the culture of waveriding for the next hundred years. From his stint on\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/never-wanted-seen-black-surfer-just-hunter-surfer\/111526\" 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>An interview with content creator, WSL host and professional surfer, Hunter Jones When the world feels like it\u2019s on fire, sometimes the best way to douse the flames is a little civil conversation. That\u2019s one thing South Bay surfer Hunter Jones is really good at \u2014 well, that and backside vertical hacks. Following a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160449","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=160449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160450,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160449\/revisions\/160450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}