{"id":53741,"date":"2011-08-28T08:51:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53741"},"modified":"2011-08-28T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:51:38","slug":"skateboard-man-finds-respite-during-epic-longboard-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53741","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Man finds respite during epic longboard trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At only 26, Chuck Swafford had found himself in a rut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I was stuck. &#8230; I was making money, but I wasn&#8217;t who I wanted to be,&#8221; said Swafford, the man with a scraggly beard and a tightly built body who was facing a crisis of identity and purpose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But looking around the Arizona factory where he assembled emergency slides for Boeing 737s, Swafford knew something had to change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So Swafford quit his job, pocketed some cash and\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesheraldonline.com\/ci_18775258\" target=\"_blank\">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>At only 26, Chuck Swafford had found himself in a rut. &#8220;I was stuck. &#8230; I was making money, but I wasn&#8217;t who I wanted to be,&#8221; said Swafford, the man with a scraggly beard and a tightly built body who was facing a crisis of identity and purpose. But looking around the Arizona factory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,59,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-misc","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53741","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=53741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53743,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53741\/revisions\/53743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}