{"id":2040,"date":"2008-10-06T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2008-10-06T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T18:58:37","slug":"surfing-priests-bless-the-waves-at-huntington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Priests Bless The Waves At Huntington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/surfpriest.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/surfpriest.jpg','popup','width=343,height=204,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\/10\/surfpriest-tm.jpg\" height=\"118\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfpriest\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s difficult to take this kind of event seriously in light of the new <strong>Bill Maher<\/strong> film <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religulousmovie.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Religulous<\/a><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>however, we know surfing is a religion so why shouldn&#8217;t a bunch of priests wear robes down to the beach in Huntington and hold a ceremony in surf dude speak?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The occasion was the Blessing of the Waves, a spiritual &#8212; but at the same time decidedly lighthearted &#8212; event organized by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. . . . One of the event&#8217;s organizers, Father Christian Mondor, helped kick off the proceedings by thanking God (or &#8220;The Big Kahuna,&#8221; as he also addressed him) for righteous waves and a killer ride for all the surfer babes and dudes assembled before him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s always kind of sad when religion panders for popularity, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5h_5_naDtiha6CF3gOWE21fCrEZDwD93KI5HG1\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to take this kind of event seriously in light of the new Bill Maher film Religulous, however, we know surfing is a religion so why shouldn&#8217;t a bunch of priests wear robes down to the beach in Huntington and hold a ceremony in surf dude speak? The occasion was the Blessing of the [&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\/2040"}],"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=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}