{"id":89681,"date":"2014-01-24T21:12:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T04:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89681"},"modified":"2014-01-24T21:12:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T04:12:27","slug":"australias-most-influential-surfer-is-someone-most-havent-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89681","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s most influential surfer is someone most haven&#8217;t heard of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WHEN Surfing Australia celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, it marked the occasion with a web\u00a0 poll to decide Australia&#8217;s 10 most influential surfers. <!-- google_ad_section_end(name=story_introduction) --> <!-- \/\/ .story-intro --> <!-- google_ad_section_start(name=story_body, weight=high) --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like many such exercises, it was a process fraught with controversy that started more arguments than it resolved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In my own study of our\u00a0 surfing history, Australia&#8217;s Century of Surf, I argue that our\u00a0 most influential surfer was in fact a\u00a0 district court judge and knight of the British realm who few surfers have ever heard of\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/australias-most-influential-surfer-is-someone-most-havent-heard-of-argues-tim-baker-in-his-new-book\/story-e6frg6n6-1226809926287\" 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>WHEN Surfing Australia celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, it marked the occasion with a web\u00a0 poll to decide Australia&#8217;s 10 most influential surfers. Like many such exercises, it was a process fraught with controversy that started more arguments than it resolved. In my own study of our\u00a0 surfing history, Australia&#8217;s Century of Surf, I [&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-89681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89681","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=89681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89682,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89681\/revisions\/89682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}