{"id":68878,"date":"2012-08-19T08:51:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68878"},"modified":"2012-08-19T08:51:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:51:32","slug":"68-year-old-surfer-a-fixture-at-annual-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68878","title":{"rendered":"68-year-old surfer a fixture at annual contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A handful of pop-up tents, scattered beach chairs and a few dozen spectators were all that remained of last year&#8217;s East Coast Surfing Championships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The scene took George Desgain back &#8211; 50 years back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;That&#8217;s how it all started,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There wasn&#8217;t much to it. But it was such an incredible time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last year&#8217;s event was supposed to be bigger than ever &#8211; a veritable city on the beach &#8211; with dozens of vendor tents, a three-story tower for judges, and sports action sprawling for blocks to the north of the Rudee Inlet jetties. But\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2012\/08\/ecsc-68yearold-surfer-fixture-annual-contest\" 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>A handful of pop-up tents, scattered beach chairs and a few dozen spectators were all that remained of last year&#8217;s East Coast Surfing Championships. The scene took George Desgain back &#8211; 50 years back. &#8220;That&#8217;s how it all started,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There wasn&#8217;t much to it. But it was such an incredible time.&#8221; Last year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68878","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=68878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68880,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68878\/revisions\/68880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}