{"id":96729,"date":"2014-07-28T21:03:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T04:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=96729"},"modified":"2014-07-28T21:03:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T04:03:06","slug":"5-reasons-to-check-out-the-vans-u-s-open-of-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=96729","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons to check out the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the longest running and most iconic surf contests in the world, the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing, kicked off this past weekend with the trials for the main event and pro junior action. Held on the south side of the venerable Huntington Beach Pier in California, it will be non-stop shredding all week until it all culminates on Sunday with the men\u2019s and women\u2019s finals. Trust us, there\u2019s something for everyone at the U.S. Open \u2026 and here\u2019s a handful of reasons for you to get to HB and take it all in live!\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/surf\/post\/5-reasons-check-2014-vans-us-open-surfing\/\" 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>One of the longest running and most iconic surf contests in the world, the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing, kicked off this past weekend with the trials for the main event and pro junior action. Held on the south side of the venerable Huntington Beach Pier in California, it will be non-stop shredding all week [&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-96729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96729","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=96729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96730,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96729\/revisions\/96730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}