{"id":86975,"date":"2013-11-18T21:33:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T04:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=86975"},"modified":"2013-11-18T21:33:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T04:33:01","slug":"surf-therapy-lets-youngsters-ride-out-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=86975","title":{"rendered":"Surf therapy lets youngsters ride out depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the UK, depressed youth can try a novel therapy: surfing lessons, with the hope that learning to hang ten will boost confidence and mood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The National Health Service (NHS) has introduced a \u00a310,000 pilot scheme, funded by Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust, that lets troubled young people take to the waves, The Telegraph reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A nonprofit organization called the Wave Project, led by volunteers\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sowetanlive.co.za\/goodlife\/2013\/11\/18\/surf-therapy-lets-youngsters-ride-out-depression\" 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>In the UK, depressed youth can try a novel therapy: surfing lessons, with the hope that learning to hang ten will boost confidence and mood. The National Health Service (NHS) has introduced a \u00a310,000 pilot scheme, funded by Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust, that lets troubled young people take to the waves, The Telegraph reports. [&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-86975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86975","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=86975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86976,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86975\/revisions\/86976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}