{"id":1856,"date":"2012-07-09T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T20:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2012-07-09T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T21:08:25","slug":"mark-twain-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain on Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e43ce00fabf1c8dd21a5b2690f720483\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8726219848488817\";\r\n\/* Blue Rad Dudes Square *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0656608587\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>In his book &#8220;Roughing It&#8221;, <em>written based on travels in 1866, and published in 1872<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0 Mark Twain describes trying to surf &#8212; and failing.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/surfing1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1858 aligncenter\" title=\"surfing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/surfing1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/surfing1.gif 400w, http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/surfing1-285x300.gif 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf- bathing. Each heathen would paddle three or four hundred yards out to sea (taking a short board with him), then face the shore and wait for a particularly prodigious billow to come along; at the right moment he would fling his board upon its foamy crest and himself upon the board, and here he would come whizzing by like a bombshell! It did not seem that a lightning express-train could shoot along at a more hair-lifting speed. I tried surf-bathing once, subsequently, but made a failure of it. I got the board placed right, and at the right moment, too; but missed the connection myself. The board struck the shore in three-quarters of a second, without any cargo, and I struck the bottom about the same time, with a couple of barrels of water in me. None but natives ever master the art of surf-bathing thoroughly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain \u00e2\u20ac\u201dSurfer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book &#8220;Roughing It&#8221;, written based on travels in 1866, and published in 1872,\u00c2\u00a0 Mark Twain describes trying to surf &#8212; and failing. In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf- bathing. Each heathen would paddle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[608,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad-dudes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}