{"id":90401,"date":"2014-02-11T17:12:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90401"},"modified":"2014-02-11T17:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:12:14","slug":"surfing-a-letter-to-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90401","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; A Letter To: The Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dear Olympics,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sup? I\u2019m Bren. I\u2019m sure you\u2019re super busy right now, what with the Winter Games and all, but I figured I\u2019d give you a holler. Hopefully you can find some quiet time in that swanky Sochi hotel room of your\u2019s to take a minute and digest what I\u2019m about to say. I\u2019m here to talk to you about surfing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here\u2019s the thing: surfing isn\u2019t an Olympic game. And here\u2019s why that\u2019s a thing: biathlon is. Biathlon, a sport which involves skiing around and shooting off rifles like a redneck on vacation in the Alps, is an Olympic game. So is table tennis, trampoline, racewalking and probably bingo. All beautiful recreations in their own right, but more beautiful than surfing? I think not. But I\u2019m not here to argue\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingmagazine.com\/blogs\/letter-olympics\/\" 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>Dear Olympics, Sup? I\u2019m Bren. I\u2019m sure you\u2019re super busy right now, what with the Winter Games and all, but I figured I\u2019d give you a holler. Hopefully you can find some quiet time in that swanky Sochi hotel room of your\u2019s to take a minute and digest what I\u2019m about to say. I\u2019m here [&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-90401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90401","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=90401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90402,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90401\/revisions\/90402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}