{"id":97586,"date":"2014-08-20T20:37:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97586"},"modified":"2014-08-20T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T03:37:16","slug":"the-best-surfing-sites-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97586","title":{"rendered":"The Best Surfing Sites for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_15_0_1_1408591585435_313\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Scared of big waves? Check. Terrified of sharks? Absolutely. Afraid of being wiped out and looking foolish? Yes! These seem like perfect reasons not to take a surfing lesson, still I ignored all of these very rational fears and caught waves in Costa Rica this summer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_15_0_1_1408591585435_316\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I asked wave-loving brothers Alex Faherty and his twin, Mike, who hail from the beach town of Spring Lake, N.J., but have spent more than a decade surfing in\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/travel\/the-best-locations-for-beginner-surfers-95196311057.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>Scared of big waves? Check. Terrified of sharks? Absolutely. Afraid of being wiped out and looking foolish? Yes! These seem like perfect reasons not to take a surfing lesson, still I ignored all of these very rational fears and caught waves in Costa Rica this summer. I asked wave-loving brothers Alex Faherty and his twin, [&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-97586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97586","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=97586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97587,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97586\/revisions\/97587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}