{"id":53,"date":"2007-08-22T16:42:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T00:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2007-12-21T21:35:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T05:35:50","slug":"paskowitz-surfing-the-gaza-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Paskowitz Surfing the Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/44071128-paskowitz416-ap.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/44071128-paskowitz416-ap.jpg','popup','width=416,height=300,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\/2007\/08\/44071128-paskowitz416-ap-tm.jpg\" height=\"144\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" 44071128 Paskowitz416 Ap\" \/><\/a><strong>Dorian Paskowitz<\/strong> the 86-year-old patriarch of the surfing Paskowitz clan has donated 12 surfboards to a small surfing community in Israel&#8217;s Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said he was inspired after reading a story about two Gaza surfers who could not enjoy the wild waves off the coastal strip because they had only one board to share between them. . . So I said to my son, &#8216;Come, we&#8217;ll go to Israel and get them some boards,'&#8221; Paskowitz told AP Television News. . . . He described his mission as a &#8220;mitzvah,&#8221; Hebrew for a &#8220;good deed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Paskowitz hoped to surf with the Palestinian surfers, security concerns prohibited him for getting in the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/44071171-gazasurfing4416-ap.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/44071171-gazasurfing4416-ap.jpg','popup','width=416,height=300,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\/2007\/08\/44071171-gazasurfing4416-ap-tm.jpg\" height=\"310\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" 44071171 Gazasurfing4416 Ap\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/6957108.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Photos: BBC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/metromix.chicagotribune.com\/news\/celebrity\/mmx-gaza_wedaug22,0,5886939.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds\" target=\"_blank\">Metromix.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorian Paskowitz the 86-year-old patriarch of the surfing Paskowitz clan has donated 12 surfboards to a small surfing community in Israel&#8217;s Gaza Strip. He said he was inspired after reading a story about two Gaza surfers who could not enjoy the wild waves off the coastal strip because they had only one board to share [&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\/53"}],"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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}