{"id":83444,"date":"2013-09-07T20:59:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T03:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83444"},"modified":"2013-09-07T20:59:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T03:59:30","slug":"african-american-surfers-challenge-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83444","title":{"rendered":"African-American Surfers Challenge Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lounging in a beach chair with his feet firmly planted in the sand, soaking in the sun one hot Saturday, was BJ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cMy name is Brian\u2013B.J. James, also known as the nautical negro,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He\u2019s been surfing at Rockaway Beach since 1997. He\u2019s even written a book about his experiences on the water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt was tough in the beginning\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/onlyagame.wbur.org\/2013\/09\/07\/african-american-surfers\" 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>Lounging in a beach chair with his feet firmly planted in the sand, soaking in the sun one hot Saturday, was BJ. \u201cMy name is Brian\u2013B.J. James, also known as the nautical negro,\u201d he said. He\u2019s been surfing at Rockaway Beach since 1997. He\u2019s even written a book about his experiences on the water. \u201cIt [&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-83444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83444","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=83444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83445,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83444\/revisions\/83445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}