{"id":320,"date":"2009-02-04T04:57:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2009-02-24T04:59:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:59:24","slug":"surfing-recessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Recessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our fair country we like our beer cold, our freedom fries hot and our economy, well, not so goddamn recessed. We are in the midst of an economic meltdown, one whose effects have trickled down every nook of society, leaving no person with bulging pockets and no business with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now Hiring\u00e2\u20ac\u009d signs. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about time for our new president to come gallivanting across the country in shining armor, slaying the fire-breathing beast of recession and ushering in a splendid age of economic growth and free love. Even if his attempts fail, shining armor is quite expensive these days, so we can count on the money he spends on that to trickle down. Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that right, Republicans? I love you guys; you always have all the answers.<\/p>\n<p>Surfers tend to be a fairly self-sufficient lot. I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard of any government bailouts for shapers lately, and I see that Quiksilver can still afford&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynexus.com\/article.php?a=18218\" target=\"_blank\">More info\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our fair country we like our beer cold, our freedom fries hot and our economy, well, not so goddamn recessed. We are in the midst of an economic meltdown, one whose effects have trickled down every nook of society, leaving no person with bulging pockets and no business with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now Hiring\u00e2\u20ac\u009d signs. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}