{"id":85559,"date":"2013-10-22T13:08:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T20:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=85559"},"modified":"2013-10-22T13:08:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T20:08:40","slug":"sup-pioneer-paddled-for-more-than-55-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=85559","title":{"rendered":"SUP pioneer paddled for more than 55 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John Zapotocky Sr. wasn\u2019t first to use a paddle but was among earliest and was advocate for standup paddle surfing; Waikiki waterman dies at age 95.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John Zapotocky Sr. was surfing in\u00a0Honolulu\u2019s Waikiki Beach when he noticed a surfer riding a wave with a paddle and thought, \u201cMy God, that\u2019s something I should be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And so he did \u2026 for more than 55 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Zapotocky, known as \u201cZap\u201d back in the day, was a genuine\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/surf\/post\/stand-up-paddle-boarding-pioneer\/\" 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>John Zapotocky Sr. wasn\u2019t first to use a paddle but was among earliest and was advocate for standup paddle surfing; Waikiki waterman dies at age 95. John Zapotocky Sr. was surfing in\u00a0Honolulu\u2019s Waikiki Beach when he noticed a surfer riding a wave with a paddle and thought, \u201cMy God, that\u2019s something I should be doing.\u201d [&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-85559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85559","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=85559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85561,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85559\/revisions\/85561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}