{"id":35081,"date":"2010-08-06T12:07:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35081"},"modified":"2010-08-06T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:07:55","slug":"surfings-greatest-philanthropist-china-uemura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35081","title":{"rendered":"Surfing&#8217;s Greatest Philanthropist, China Uemura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite the tragic effect the crashing economy has had on philanthropy, a glimmer of hope remains in the surfing world. For more than two-and-a-half decades, China Uemura has sought to give back to his native Honolulu through his annual longboard classic surf contest in Waikiki. Over the course of the event&#8217;s life, China has raised more than 200,000 for local charities. And despite seeing a dip in the amount of entries for this year&#8217;s event, China still managed to cut a check to the Shriner&#8217;s Hospital for Children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Since I started this event 26 years ago, I&#8217;ve been trying to give back to the community. When I was a pro, I was given a lot by a lot of people. And now I&#8217;m trying to give back,&#8221; says Uemura. &#8220;Over the years, I&#8217;ve given to a lot of different charities\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/19567\/surfings+greatest+philanthropist+china+uemura\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the tragic effect the crashing economy has had on philanthropy, a glimmer of hope remains in the surfing world. For more than two-and-a-half decades, China Uemura has sought to give back to his native Honolulu through his annual longboard classic surf contest in Waikiki. Over the course of the event&#8217;s life, China has raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35081","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=35081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35082,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35081\/revisions\/35082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}