{"id":16321,"date":"2010-06-18T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2010-06-18T07:49:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:49:49","slug":"sweetness-and-blood-another-surf-history-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16321","title":{"rendered":"Sweetness And Blood: Another Surf History Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/372.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/372.jpg','popup','width=250,height=380,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/372-tm.jpg\" height=\"152\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"372\" \/><\/a>Last week the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/20\/books\/review\/Martin-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times book review<\/a><\/em><\/strong> featured a story on Berlin-based writer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/radiofreemike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Scott Moore&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> surfing history book <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1605294276?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1605294276\" target=\"_blank\">Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii to California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. In it he searches for the world&#8217;s first surfer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moore\u2019s own history is a thing of shreds and patches, casually, almost randomly, assembled. But what he has done, subtly and beguilingly, is write a book about surfing that often is not really about surfing but about simply being alive (and, in some cases, dead).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Matt Warshaw<\/strong> says the book is &#8220;Warm, smart, funny, and beautifully written.&#8221; <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1596913444?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596913444\" target=\"_blank\">West of Jesus<\/a><\/em><\/strong> author <strong>Steven Kotler<\/strong> says it is a &#8220;wonderful and engaging book . . . [that] combines folk history, pop art, and great old-fashioned travel writing.&#8221; Moore also quotes <strong>Ben &#8220;the world&#8217;s greatest surf writer&#8221; Marcus<\/strong> in the first few pages of the book so we might just pick it up.<\/p>\n<p>For a short interview with Michael Scott Moore <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/18\/stray-questions-for-michael-scott-moore\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here for the NYT&#8217;s books blog Paper Cuts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/20\/books\/review\/Martin-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the New York Times book review featured a story on Berlin-based writer Michael Scott Moore&#8217;s surfing history book Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii to California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results. In it he searches for the world&#8217;s first surfer. Moore\u2019s own history is a thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16323,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions\/16323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}