{"id":85912,"date":"2013-10-28T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=85912"},"modified":"2013-10-28T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:44:57","slug":"surfing-tom-carroll-comes-clean-on-his-drug-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=85912","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Tom Carroll comes clean on his drug addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Australian surf legend Tom Carroll appeared on 60 Minutes in Australia Sunday to come clean about a methamphetamine addiction that\u2019s been crippling him for decades. \u201cIt was killing me,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a powerful life force inside trying to kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Carroll was a two-time ASP world champion, winning back-to-back titles in 1983 and 1984. He\u2019s ranked No. 7 in Surfer magazine\u2019s \u201cGreatest surfers of all time\u201d list. He\u2019s also considered one of the best surfers ever at Pipeline on Oahu\u2019s North Shore. His decision to go public with his struggle comes\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/lifestyle\/pro-active\/post\/tom-carroll-comes-clean-on-his-drug-addiction\/\" 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>Australian surf legend Tom Carroll appeared on 60 Minutes in Australia Sunday to come clean about a methamphetamine addiction that\u2019s been crippling him for decades. \u201cIt was killing me,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a powerful life force inside trying to kill me.\u201d Carroll was a two-time ASP world champion, winning back-to-back titles in 1983 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85912","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=85912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85913,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85912\/revisions\/85913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}