{"id":76225,"date":"2013-03-05T08:03:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=76225"},"modified":"2013-03-05T08:03:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T15:03:08","slug":"surfing-shoots-itself-in-the-foot-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=76225","title":{"rendered":"Surfing shoots itself in the foot on drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday Kelly Slater became the first pro surfer to confirm while still on tour that the sport had a recreational drug problem. A \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rampant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one, he told the Gold Coast Bulletin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sport has had no shortage of former pros saying the same thing, most recently Gary Elkerton, who admitted in his autobiography that he almost died of an overdose himself in 1985.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And the overdose death of Andy Irons, alone in a hotel room in Texas on his way home from a contest in November 2010, was the most tragic confirmation possible, one from which the sport is still struggling to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/sport\/surfing-shoots-itself-in-the-foot-on-drugs\/story-e6frg7mf-1226590288014\" 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>Yesterday Kelly Slater became the first pro surfer to confirm while still on tour that the sport had a recreational drug problem. A \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rampant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one, he told the Gold Coast Bulletin. The sport has had no shortage of former pros saying the same thing, most recently Gary Elkerton, who admitted in his autobiography that he [&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-76225","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\/76225","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=76225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76226,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76225\/revisions\/76226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}