{"id":78531,"date":"2013-04-26T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=78531"},"modified":"2013-04-26T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T02:10:08","slug":"amputee-surfer-offers-hope-to-boston-bombing-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=78531","title":{"rendered":"Amputee surfer offers hope to Boston bombing victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mike Coots flew from Hawaii to Boston recently to meet with victims of the bombings, hoping to console, comfort and offer advice to those who lost limbs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was representing Friends of Bethany, a nonprofit organization of which he is a board member. Undoubtedly you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re familiar with surfer Bethany Hamilton, who while surfing lost her arm in a shark attack. She has since devoted her life to helping other amputees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Friends of Bethany is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dedicated to sharing the hope\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/surf\/post\/amputee-surfer-offers-hope-to-boston-bombing-victims\/\" 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>Mike Coots flew from Hawaii to Boston recently to meet with victims of the bombings, hoping to console, comfort and offer advice to those who lost limbs. He was representing Friends of Bethany, a nonprofit organization of which he is a board member. Undoubtedly you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re familiar with surfer Bethany Hamilton, who while surfing lost her [&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-78531","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\/78531","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=78531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78532,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78531\/revisions\/78532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}