{"id":3566,"date":"2008-12-28T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2008-12-28T19:11:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T03:11:32","slug":"joel-pattersons-alex-knost-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3566","title":{"rendered":"Joel Patterson&#8217;s Alex Knost Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/knost-burkard.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/knost-burkard.jpg','popup','width=394,height=456,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\/12\/knost-burkard-tm.jpg\" height=\"231\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Knost Burkard\" \/><\/a>To us <strong>Alex Knost<\/strong> has always been &#8220;that RVCA guy with a cool haircut&#8221; who is in that band that we&#8217;ve seen dozens of photos of, but never heard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen him surf in <strong>Thomas Campbell&#8217;s<\/strong> film <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0017W6HHU?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0017W6HHU\" target=\"_blank\">Sprout<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, but obviously we haven&#8217;t followed along properly. Now, after reading <strong>Joel Patterson&#8217;s<\/strong> profile (which we&#8217;re guessing is\/was from an old (or never published) issue of <strong>Water Magazine<\/strong> on <strong>Surfline.com)<\/strong> we&#8217;re a little bummed that we haven&#8217;t paid Mr. Knost more attention. But that&#8217;s what good writing does. Right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alex looks like a beat poet. At 23, he is taller than average, and he sports a hipster haircut and a tan so true one suspects foul play. He smiles easily and contagiously, though his default facial expression seems to be that of someone listening with purpose to a conversation he&#8217;s eavesdropping on: head slightly cocked, eyes narrowed, focus shifting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With lines like that, how can you <em>not<\/em> read the rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surfnews\/article_bamp_400_v03.cfm?id=20383\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To us Alex Knost has always been &#8220;that RVCA guy with a cool haircut&#8221; who is in that band that we&#8217;ve seen dozens of photos of, but never heard.&#8221; We&#8217;ve seen him surf in Thomas Campbell&#8217;s film Sprout, but obviously we haven&#8217;t followed along properly. Now, after reading Joel Patterson&#8217;s profile (which we&#8217;re guessing is\/was [&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\/3566"}],"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=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}