{"id":1878,"date":"2008-09-19T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2008-09-19T12:14:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T19:14:59","slug":"the-passion-of-the-gay-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"The Passion Of The Gay Surfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/361614.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/361614.jpg','popup','width=300,height=450,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\/2008\/09\/361614-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"361614\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1043860\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle<\/a><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> the latest in what seems like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1099\" target=\"_blank\">a string of gay surf movies<\/a><\/strong> coming out, is premiering in its Australian namesake city on October 29. <\/p>\n<p>The film is a the coming-of-age story about three young surfer brothers growing up in Australia, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.com.au\/news\/local\/news\/general\/gay-undertow-to-newcastle-surf-film\/1277718.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Hearld<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While rising surf star Jesse chases waves and girls and battles his resentful older brother, a former surfing champion, misfit Fergus develops a crush on one of Jesse&#8217;s macho mates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film was written and directed by American <strong>Dan Castle<\/strong> who says he &#8220;wove aspects of his own experiences as a surf-mad teen into his Newcastle script.&#8221; In a humorous twist of irony, the film is being distributed by actor <strong>Mel Gibson&#8217;s<\/strong> company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconmovies.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Icon Film Distribution<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.com.au\/news\/local\/news\/general\/gay-undertow-to-newcastle-surf-film\/1277718.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Hearld<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle, the latest in what seems like a string of gay surf movies coming out, is premiering in its Australian namesake city on October 29. The film is a the coming-of-age story about three young surfer brothers growing up in Australia, according to a story in The Hearld. While rising surf star Jesse chases waves [&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\/1878"}],"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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}