{"id":97539,"date":"2014-08-19T13:53:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97539"},"modified":"2014-08-19T13:53:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:53:05","slug":"decoding-the-latest-surf-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97539","title":{"rendered":"Decoding the latest surf slang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The other day I was driving around listening to the NPR radio show \u201cA Way With Words.\u201d One segment that piqued my interest\u00a0talked about slang that was specific to certain jobs or activities. The slang they discussed had something to do with flight attendants, and one flight attendant in particular was very slow during food service, so the other flight attendants referred to her as \u201csalads over St. Louis,\u201d or something to that effect. The phrase suggested that, over St. Louis, the flight attendant would only be on salad service on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. (Not that we get food service on flights anymore, but you get the idea.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anyway, this got me thinking about the slang surfers use, and more precisely, surf commentators\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/lifestyle\/pro-active\/post\/decoding-the-latest-surf-slang\/\" 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>The other day I was driving around listening to the NPR radio show \u201cA Way With Words.\u201d One segment that piqued my interest\u00a0talked about slang that was specific to certain jobs or activities. The slang they discussed had something to do with flight attendants, and one flight attendant in particular was very slow during food [&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-97539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97539","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=97539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97540,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97539\/revisions\/97540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}