{"id":1866,"date":"2008-09-17T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T17:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2008-09-17T10:12:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T17:12:49","slug":"bangladeshs-first-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh&#8217;s First Surfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While claiming to be the first person to do anything in the world is getting more and more difficult, <strong>Jafar Alam<\/strong>, 25, says he&#8217;s the first Bangladeshi surfer. And now he is sharing his love with the <strong>Cox&#8217;s Bazar Surf Club<\/strong> which he founded in 2002..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This month he will hold his fourth annual surfing competition, when a group of 15 American surfers will descend on the beach to compete against locals. . . . He now has 48 students, including 12 girls. Although home to a 125-kilometre (78-mile) stretch of unbroken coast, it was only the occasional intrepid international tourist who would test the waves, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would probably be an easy contest to win. Better start packing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytimes.com.pk\/default.asp?page=2008%5C09%5C17%5Cstory_17-9-2008_pg2_11\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While claiming to be the first person to do anything in the world is getting more and more difficult, Jafar Alam, 25, says he&#8217;s the first Bangladeshi surfer. And now he is sharing his love with the Cox&#8217;s Bazar Surf Club which he founded in 2002.. This month he will hold his fourth annual surfing [&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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866"}],"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=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}