{"id":83357,"date":"2013-09-05T20:24:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T03:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83357"},"modified":"2013-09-05T20:32:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T03:32:36","slug":"10-reasons-surfing-improves-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83357","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons Surfing Improves Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve met enough dedicated surfers who are absolute jerks to know that surfing alone cannot save humanity. However, after spending nearly 15 years immersed in the sport, I believe elements of surfing have the potential to ground human beings in a uniquely meaningful way. Below are 10 of them. Don&#8217;t take it from me, though. Get out there. If not for you, then for the rest of us. And, please, add your own reasons below!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You will care about<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/zach-weisberg\/10-reasons-surfing-improv_b_3873885.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>I&#8217;ve met enough dedicated surfers who are absolute jerks to know that surfing alone cannot save humanity. However, after spending nearly 15 years immersed in the sport, I believe elements of surfing have the potential to ground human beings in a uniquely meaningful way. Below are 10 of them. Don&#8217;t take it from me, though. [&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-83357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83357","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=83357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83359,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83357\/revisions\/83359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}