{"id":47542,"date":"2015-01-02T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T16:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=47542"},"modified":"2015-01-02T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T17:56:13","slug":"surfer-called-by-god-to-fight-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=47542","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Called By God To Fight ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/deanparker.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/deanparker.jpg','popup','width=634,height=495,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\/2015\/01\/deanparker-tm.jpg\" height=\"335\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Deanparker\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While teaching surfing in Costa Rica 49-year-old <strong>Dean Parker<\/strong> reportedly &#8220;heard God&#8217;s call&#8221; to fight ISIS, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2862608\/American-grandfather-Dean-Parker-joins-Kurds-fight-ISIS-Syria-abandoning-idyllic-life-surf-instructor-Costa-Rica.html\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An American grandfather has joined the Kurds in the fight against ISIS in Syria after abandoning his idyllic life as a surf instructor in Costa Rica, to wield an AK-47 against the jihadists. . . In an interview with MailOnline, Dean Parker, who has no previous military experience, said he \u2018heard God&#8217;s call\u2019 to take up arms after watching a heartbreaking TV report about the plight of the Yazidi people trapped on Mount Sinjar by Islamic State fighters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parker says he&#8217;s going to surf the Black Sea just as soon as they can defeat ISIS. For the rest of the story, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2862608\/American-grandfather-Dean-Parker-joins-Kurds-fight-ISIS-Syria-abandoning-idyllic-life-surf-instructor-Costa-Rica.html\">click the link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: D<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2862608\/American-grandfather-Dean-Parker-joins-Kurds-fight-ISIS-Syria-abandoning-idyllic-life-surf-instructor-Costa-Rica.html\">aily Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While teaching surfing in Costa Rica 49-year-old Dean Parker reportedly &#8220;heard God&#8217;s call&#8221; to fight ISIS, according to a story in the Daily Mail. An American grandfather has joined the Kurds in the fight against ISIS in Syria after abandoning his idyllic life as a surf instructor in Costa Rica, to wield an AK-47 against [&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\/47542"}],"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=47542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47543,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47542\/revisions\/47543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}