{"id":88362,"date":"2013-12-21T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T17:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=88362"},"modified":"2013-12-21T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T17:52:54","slug":"surfing-greg-long-illumination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=88362","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Greg Long: Illumination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Exactly one year after his accident at Cortes Bank, Greg Long gives a raw and honest account of the wipeout that nearly killed him, and the subsequent lessons learned about life, love and having fun.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following my accident I chose to forego sharing the intimate details of what happened because of the emotional trauma of reliving them so soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Time has passed and I can now share those details, not because I want to wow anyone with the story of my survival, but because I feel there are lessons. Lessons l learned after taking that fateful drop and during my yearlong journey trying to find my place back in the world of big-wave surfing. I am speaking about a place of love, confidence and most importantly fun. Finding it has been the greatest challenge of my life\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingmagazine.com\/magazine\/greg-long-illumination\/\" 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>Exactly one year after his accident at Cortes Bank, Greg Long gives a raw and honest account of the wipeout that nearly killed him, and the subsequent lessons learned about life, love and having fun. Immediately following my accident I chose to forego sharing the intimate details of what happened because of the emotional trauma [&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-88362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88362","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=88362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88364,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88362\/revisions\/88364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}