{"id":52808,"date":"2018-05-15T12:49:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=52808"},"modified":"2018-06-01T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T01:34:26","slug":"rip-the-pumphouse-gang-writer-tom-wolfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=52808","title":{"rendered":"RIP: The Pumphouse Gang Writer Tom Wolfe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/apologies_to_devine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/apologies_to_devine.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/apologies_to_devine-200x140.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The writer who brought surfing to the masses with his <a href=\"http:\/\/macmedadestruction.com\/la-jolla-pumphouse-crowd-la-jollabeach-life\"><strong>wildly popular essay<\/strong><\/a> on the Windansea crew,&nbsp;<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pump_House_Gang\">The Pumphouse Gang<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;died on Monday May 14, 2018, according to a story in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/15\/obituaries\/tom-wolfe-pyrotechnic-nonfiction-writer-and-novelist-dies-at-88.html\"><em><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tom Wolfe<\/strong>, an innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattan\u2019s moneyed status-seekers in works like \u201cThe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,\u201d \u201cThe Right Stuff\u201d and \u201cBonfire of the Vanities,\u201d died on Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 88.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We will miss his wit, eye, and especially his monstrously huge novels that we&#8217;ve always loved lugging around.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/15\/obituaries\/tom-wolfe-pyrotechnic-nonfiction-writer-and-novelist-dies-at-88.html\">New York Times<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writer who brought surfing to the masses with his wildly popular essay on the Windansea crew,&nbsp;The Pumphouse Gang,&nbsp;died on Monday May 14, 2018, according to a story in the New York Times. Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52808"}],"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=52808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52845,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52808\/revisions\/52845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}