{"id":82832,"date":"2013-08-26T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=82832"},"modified":"2013-08-26T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T03:28:07","slug":"is-surfing-becoming-too-popular-for-its-own-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=82832","title":{"rendered":"Is surfing becoming too popular for its own good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Long gone are the days when being a surfer was viewed as a bit of joke in terms of being a professional sportsperson. Surfers are now elite athletes building brands and making careers out of a lifestyle sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Surfing has transcended global borders and brings together a community of people who love what they do together in the water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But what does all this mean for the sport?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Are there now too many people surfing?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroar.com.au\/2013\/08\/27\/is-surfing-becoming-too-popular\/\" 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>Long gone are the days when being a surfer was viewed as a bit of joke in terms of being a professional sportsperson. Surfers are now elite athletes building brands and making careers out of a lifestyle sport. Surfing has transcended global borders and brings together a community of people who love what they do [&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-82832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82832","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=82832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82833,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82832\/revisions\/82833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}