{"id":5646,"date":"2009-02-23T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2009-02-23T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T19:32:54","slug":"lewis-samuels-post-surf-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5646","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Samuels&#8217; Post Surf Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/postsurf.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/postsurf.jpg','popup','width=1159,height=702,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\/2009\/02\/postsurf-tm.jpg\" height=\"121\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Postsurf\" \/><\/a><strong>Surfline&#8217;s Lewis Samuels<\/strong>, popular as the author of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/wct-contest-zone\/after-event-11-of-2008-billabong-pipeline-masters-power-rankings-2008-final_21296\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline&#8217;s ASP Power Rankings<\/a><\/strong> launched his own blog a couple months ago. It&#8217;s called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postsurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Postsurf.com<\/a><\/strong>. The site culls up out-takes from Samuel&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/wct-contest-zone\/the-new-crew-preview-asp-world-tour-power-rankings_22323\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">paying gig at Surfline<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/postsurf.com\/2009\/02\/19\/bobby-on-kelly\/\" target=\"_blank\">original reporting<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/postsurf.com\/2009\/02\/16\/surfhipster-or-gaybro\/\" target=\"_blank\">goofy think pieces<\/a><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s what Lewis says about it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the grand tradition of morally-ambiguous, surf-lust inspired schemes, I\u2019m launching this site: PostSurf &#8211; A place for myself and other Surf Culture iconoclasts to mull over the act, after the act is finished. . . . This site is based on a blind faith that there are many other surfers out there who are dissatisfied with the current state of the surf media. . . . I\u2019m trying to make things better (or much, much worse depending upon your perspective).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good, honest, insightful, funny writing about surfing is always in short supply and chances are that Postsurf.com will occasionally contain some. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve added the site to our Surf Links and our RSS feeds. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/postsurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PostSurf <\/a><\/strong><strong>via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GLOBEsurf\" target=\"_blank\">Globe Tweet<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfline&#8217;s Lewis Samuels, popular as the author of Surfline&#8217;s ASP Power Rankings launched his own blog a couple months ago. It&#8217;s called Postsurf.com. The site culls up out-takes from Samuel&#8217;s paying gig at Surfline, original reporting, and goofy think pieces. Here&#8217;s what Lewis says about it: In the grand tradition of morally-ambiguous, surf-lust inspired schemes, [&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":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646"}],"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=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}