{"id":53244,"date":"2011-08-14T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53244"},"modified":"2011-08-14T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T17:10:58","slug":"prehistoric-flying-creature-lands-on-cardiff-surfer-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53244","title":{"rendered":"Prehistoric flying creature lands on Cardiff surfer statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The vandals\/critics\/guerrilla artists who do not like the official civic statue along Highway 101 in Cardiff-by-the-Sea are at it again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Officially named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Magic Carpet Ride,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the statue has provoked controversy, mockery and late-night redesigns virtually from its installation in 2007.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The subject, a young boy on a surfboard, would seem perfect for this northern San Diego County suburb, known for its surfing breaks. But surfers and artists say his dainty look is an insult to a macho sport\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/08\/cardiff-kook-pterodactyl.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/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>The vandals\/critics\/guerrilla artists who do not like the official civic statue along Highway 101 in Cardiff-by-the-Sea are at it again. Officially named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Magic Carpet Ride,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the statue has provoked controversy, mockery and late-night redesigns virtually from its installation in 2007. The subject, a young boy on a surfboard, would seem perfect for this northern San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53244","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=53244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53245,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53244\/revisions\/53245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}