{"id":98911,"date":"2014-10-05T21:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T04:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=98911"},"modified":"2014-10-05T21:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T04:18:43","slug":"surfing-at-obama-beach-proposed-name-change-angers-hawaiians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=98911","title":{"rendered":"Surfing At Obama Beach?  Proposed Name Change Angers Hawaiians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a body-surfing President Obama at a beach in Oahu has inspired two Honolulu City Council members to propose renaming that beach after the president. They say the move would show pride in a Hawaiian-born President, and would attract tourism dollars.<\/p>\n<p>According to KHOU, the beach\u2019s current name would simply have President Obama\u2019s name appended to the beginning: \u201cSandy Beach Park\u201d would become \u201cPresident Barack Obama Sandy Beach Park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When that publication asked beachgoers their opinions\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/1520267\/surfing-at-obama-beach-proposed-name-change-angers-hawaiians\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a body-surfing President Obama at a beach in Oahu has inspired two Honolulu City Council members to propose renaming that beach after the president. They say the move would show pride in a Hawaiian-born President, and would attract tourism dollars. According to KHOU, the beach\u2019s current name would simply have President Obama\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98911","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=98911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98912,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98911\/revisions\/98912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}