{"id":93162,"date":"2014-04-19T20:38:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T03:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93162"},"modified":"2014-04-20T09:25:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T16:25:47","slug":"sailing-surfing-hundreds-paddle-out-in-tribute-to-hobie-alter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93162","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Surfing &#8211; Hundreds Paddle-Out in tribute to Hobie Alter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hobie Alter had only one request: He wanted a traditional Hawaiian paddle-out ceremony after he died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the blue waters off Dana Point and surrounded by surfboards and sailboats, Alter\u2019s family on Friday released bowls filled with soil brought from Hawaii, ocean water and sand from Waikiki beach, and rock salt, which represented the \u201cpurification of one\u2019s soul, body and life,\u201d said Eric Keawe, a \u201cKahu,\u201d or Hawaiian priest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Surfers gathered on\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/alter-610508-hobie-water.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hobie Alter had only one request: He wanted a traditional Hawaiian paddle-out ceremony after he died. In the blue waters off Dana Point and surrounded by surfboards and sailboats, Alter\u2019s family on Friday released bowls filled with soil brought from Hawaii, ocean water and sand from Waikiki beach, and rock salt, which represented the \u201cpurification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93162","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=93162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93177,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93162\/revisions\/93177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}