{"id":89249,"date":"2014-01-14T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T03:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89249"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T03:21:20","slug":"surf-mats-opened-way-to-bodyboarding-80-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89249","title":{"rendered":"Surf mats opened way to bodyboarding 80 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the beginning, water sports fanatics were riding a mat. No wax, no design, no hard slick bottoms, no leash. Just pure fun in the waves. Mat surfing is celebrating its 80th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The magic carpet that glided over the surface of the waves had its glory days, a long time ago. George Greenough is widely considered the father of modern mat surfing, although he is not the inventor of\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/bodyboarding\/9803-surf-mats-opened-way-to-bodyboarding-80-years-ago?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fbodyboarding+%28Bodyboarding+News+%7C+SurferToday.com%29\" 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 beginning, water sports fanatics were riding a mat. No wax, no design, no hard slick bottoms, no leash. Just pure fun in the waves. Mat surfing is celebrating its 80th anniversary. The magic carpet that glided over the surface of the waves had its glory days, a long time ago. George Greenough is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89249","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=89249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89250,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89249\/revisions\/89250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}