{"id":80311,"date":"2013-06-10T19:41:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T02:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80311"},"modified":"2013-06-10T19:41:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T02:41:38","slug":"learning-to-be-a-surfer-dude-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80311","title":{"rendered":"Learning to be a surfer dude in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The monster wave approached. It had to be 20 or 30 feet. Undaunted, I paddled forward. Well, all right, maybe it\u2019s more like 2 or 3 feet. But does size really matter?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I jumped onto the board, turned into the crest and caught it. And for three mind-numbing seconds, I stood up \u2014 love handles dancing in the air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dude, I\u2019m surfin\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are worse places to be in the summer than Carlsbad, Calif. About 35 miles north of San Diego, the beach town has bright sun, good bars and restaurants and oh-so-tasty waves. It doesn\u2019t get much more SoCal than this\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/travel\/2021127629_californiasurfxml.html\" 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>The monster wave approached. It had to be 20 or 30 feet. Undaunted, I paddled forward. Well, all right, maybe it\u2019s more like 2 or 3 feet. But does size really matter? I jumped onto the board, turned into the crest and caught it. And for three mind-numbing seconds, I stood up \u2014 love handles [&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-80311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80311","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=80311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80312,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80311\/revisions\/80312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}