{"id":2664,"date":"2009-03-06T06:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2009-03-17T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:00:40","slug":"surfing-laguna-groms-dream-of-big-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"SURFING LAGUNA: Groms dream of big things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2665\" title=\"surfinglaguna030609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/surfinglaguna030609-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"surfinglaguna030609\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Driving up to the Torrance Beach surf competition last weekend, the Laguna Grom Squad and I talked about what it would take to become the world champ of surfing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a la <em>a la <\/em>Kelly Slater or Tom Curren.<\/p>\n<p>Like other sports, surfing has a ladder that leads to the top. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elite surfers come from all different backgrounds and countries, which is noteworthy in a sport that has historically been dominated by Australians, Americans, Hawaiians and South Africans&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastlinepilot.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/06\/sports\/cpt-surfinglaguna030609.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving up to the Torrance Beach surf competition last weekend, the Laguna Grom Squad and I talked about what it would take to become the world champ of surfing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a la a la Kelly Slater or Tom Curren. Like other sports, surfing has a ladder that leads to the top. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elite surfers come [&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-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","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=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}