{"id":84088,"date":"2013-09-21T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T17:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=84088"},"modified":"2013-09-21T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T17:25:01","slug":"how-close-are-we-to-artificial-surf-park-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=84088","title":{"rendered":"How close are we to artificial surf park perfection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Within the last year, developments in artificial surfing wave technology, such as those recently announced by Spanish company Wavegarden, have made the dream of perfect waves on-demand seem like much more of a reality, potentially putting the entire surf industry on the verge of a new frontier. To keep everyone up-to-date on these new developments, U.S.-based Surf Park Central organized the first annual Surf Park Summit in Laguna Beach, California, recently. While there was an ironically good swell outside, the meeting was well attended, and it seemed like nearly every company involved is inching toward manufacturing their perfect wave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For example\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/surf\/post\/notes-from-the-first-ever-surf-park-summit\/\" 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>Within the last year, developments in artificial surfing wave technology, such as those recently announced by Spanish company Wavegarden, have made the dream of perfect waves on-demand seem like much more of a reality, potentially putting the entire surf industry on the verge of a new frontier. To keep everyone up-to-date on these new developments, [&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-84088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84088","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=84088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84089,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84088\/revisions\/84089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}