{"id":162005,"date":"2021-10-24T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T00:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162005"},"modified":"2021-10-24T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T00:48:21","slug":"surfer-boogie-board-inventor-tom-morey-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162005","title":{"rendered":"Surfer, Boogie Board inventor Tom Morey dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Morey, who invented the Boogie Board in Hawaii, allowing belly wave riding, has died at 86.<\/p>\n<p>Morey died on October 14 in Laguna Hills, Calif., from complications of a strike, his son Sol told The New York Times Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tom Morey&#8217;s invention allowed more people to experience wave riding than any person in the history of surfing,&#8221; California Surf Museum President Jim Kempton told the Times. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t create radical surfing performances, but it was a really fun and simple way for people to understand wave riding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morey used an electric knife and iron he&#8217;d borrowed from a neighbor to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2021\/10\/23\/Tom-Morey-Boogie-Board-inventor-dies\/3251635008576\/\" 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>Tom Morey, who invented the Boogie Board in Hawaii, allowing belly wave riding, has died at 86. Morey died on October 14 in Laguna Hills, Calif., from complications of a strike, his son Sol told The New York Times Friday. &#8220;Tom Morey&#8217;s invention allowed more people to experience wave riding than any person in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54,18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding","category-surf","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162005","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=162005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162006,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162005\/revisions\/162006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}