{"id":89984,"date":"2014-01-31T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89984"},"modified":"2014-01-31T21:00:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T04:00:35","slug":"a-surf-virgins-experience-surf-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89984","title":{"rendered":"A surf virgin\u2019s experience: Surf school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Francesca Baker went back to school recently &#8211; well, surf school, to be more precise. Here&#8217;s her journey from startled newbie to sort-of surfing pro&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A fortnight before<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s the Monday after the night before (travelling does this and days merge, making a Sunday social acceptable &#8211; although not for those I was with necessarily, who had to get up the next day), and I&#8217;m not really feeling the hectic day of sightseeing and organised trips that I had planned. The weather forecast for the rest of the week is more cloud than cornflower skies, and last night a friend pointed out that this would probably be my last chance to go to Bondi Beach. It&#8217;s something that every English tourist in Australia must do\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tntmagazine.com\/travel\/travel-advice\/a-surf-virgins-experience-surf-school-on-the-australian-coast\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesca Baker went back to school recently &#8211; well, surf school, to be more precise. Here&#8217;s her journey from startled newbie to sort-of surfing pro&#8230; A fortnight before: It&#8217;s the Monday after the night before (travelling does this and days merge, making a Sunday social acceptable &#8211; although not for those I was with necessarily, [&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-89984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89984","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=89984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89985,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89984\/revisions\/89985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}