{"id":27884,"date":"2012-01-18T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27884"},"modified":"2012-01-18T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:32:23","slug":"great-lakes-surfer-arrested-for-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27884","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes Surfer Arrested For Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lake Michigan surfer was &#8220;taken into custody&#8221; yesterday (Tuesday, January 17, 2012) for surfing, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wls\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=8509040\" target=\"_blank\">ABC 7 News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police from the Near North District and Marine Unit responded about 5 p.m. to a report of a man surfing in Lake Michigan off Oak Street Beach in the 1000 block of North Lake Shore Drive, police said. . . Beaches are closed until May 25, according to the Chicago Park District&#8217;s website. Lifeguards are not on duty and swimming is &#8220;discouraged&#8221; at all beaches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh no. Call the cops. A man is surfing. In Lake Michigan for gosh sakes. Oddly, the police didn&#8217;t really know what they were going to charge the guy with, but &#8220;detectives are investigating.&#8221; Don&#8217;t they know: Surfing is not a crime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wls\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=8509040\" target=\"_blank\">ABC 7 News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lake Michigan surfer was &#8220;taken into custody&#8221; yesterday (Tuesday, January 17, 2012) for surfing, according to a story on ABC 7 News. Police from the Near North District and Marine Unit responded about 5 p.m. to a report of a man surfing in Lake Michigan off Oak Street Beach in the 1000 block of [&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":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884"}],"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=27884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27886,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884\/revisions\/27886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}