{"id":5043,"date":"2009-03-19T10:57:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2009-03-19T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:08:49","slug":"surfing-surfing-vietnam-pat-farley-sheds-light-on-the-untold-story-of-surfers-during-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5043","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Surfing Vietnam,  Pat Farley sheds light on the untold story of surfers during the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5044\" title=\"surf-v\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/surf-v.jpg\" alt=\"surf-v\" width=\"240\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/surf-v.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/surf-v-122x150.jpg 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am a product of the Vietnam War. Though I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve jokingly said that for years, it is true. During the war my mother was a Vietnamese civilian working as a translator for the United States Army in Saigon, where my father was stationed as an American helicopter pilot in the Navy. They met there. Just as the North Vietnamese were taking over Saigon on April 29, 1975, my mother fled Vietnam aboard a refugee boat amidst the historical chaos. My father was also on the coast, hovering overhead while commandeering his final mission in Vietnam. They were separated but four months later, my mother would ultimately relocate to San Diego where they reunited and eventually married.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtweekly.com\/20090318387055\/good-times\/covers\/surfing-vietnam\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 I am a product of the Vietnam War. Though I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve jokingly said that for years, it is true. During the war my mother was a Vietnamese civilian working as a translator for the United States Army in Saigon, where my father was stationed as an American helicopter pilot in the Navy. They met there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-surf-products-tests","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","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=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}