{"id":23804,"date":"2009-11-20T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T22:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=23804"},"modified":"2009-11-20T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T22:06:36","slug":"surfing-video-checking-in-with-tasmanias-high-flying-dion-agius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=23804","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Video &#8211; Checking in with Tasmania&#8217;s high-flying Dion Agius."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Had it not been for an unwanted Christmas present, 24-year-old Dion Agius might have ended up a professional boogie boarder. When he was a kid the young Tasmanian was already earning shots in bodyboard mags, but watching his son ride prone was a sight Dion&#8217;s father just couldn&#8217;t abide. So one Christmas the old man presented his son with a brand spanking new surfboard\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe last thing the teenager wanted. What he really wanted was a new bodyboard. &#8220;I was bummed,&#8221; Dion says now &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/news\/story?id=4674687\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"498\" height=\"336\" data=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/videohub\/player\/embed.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"ESPN_VIDEO\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"id=4666894\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/videohub\/player\/embed.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had it not been for an unwanted Christmas present, 24-year-old Dion Agius might have ended up a professional boogie boarder. When he was a kid the young Tasmanian was already earning shots in bodyboard mags, but watching his son ride prone was a sight Dion&#8217;s father just couldn&#8217;t abide. So one Christmas the old man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804","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=23804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23806,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804\/revisions\/23806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}