{"id":10106,"date":"2009-08-31T07:54:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T14:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10106"},"modified":"2009-08-31T08:10:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:10:30","slug":"gang-members-charge-the-surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10106","title":{"rendered":"Gang Members Charge The Surf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/RI0831_Surf_2_08-31-09_OQFIG46.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/RI0831_Surf_2_08-31-09_OQFIG46.jpg','popup','width=331,height=222,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\/08\/RI0831_Surf_2_08-31-09_OQFIG46-tm.jpg\" height=\"134\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ri0831 Surf 2 08-31-09 Oqfig46\" \/><\/a><strong>Shayla Belanger<\/strong>, a case manager for juvenile re-entry with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonviolenceinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for the Study &#38; Practice of Nonviolence<\/a><\/strong> in Providence, Rhode Island decided that it might be a nice idea to take some of the cities gang members surfing after thinking that the sport embodies &#8220;grace, humility, patience and teamwork,&#8221; according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/news\/content\/GANG_SURFING_08-31-09_9KFHVEH_v12.39878a1.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Providence Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI believe everybody in the water is equal,\u201d she said. \u201cAs soon as I get them out there and show them something beautiful, they open right up.\u201d . . <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gansettjuice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gansett Juice<\/a><\/strong>, a surf shop in Narragansett donated the surfboards and wetsuits, while <strong>Douglas Shehan<\/strong>, and his stepson, <strong>Griffin Koskua<\/strong>, 13, both surfers, agreed to meet the city boys on the beach and provide them with some tips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone in the water is equal? Maybe in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/news\/content\/GANG_SURFING_08-31-09_9KFHVEH_v12.39878a1.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Providence Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shayla Belanger, a case manager for juvenile re-entry with the Institute for the Study &#38; Practice of Nonviolence in Providence, Rhode Island decided that it might be a nice idea to take some of the cities gang members surfing after thinking that the sport embodies &#8220;grace, humility, patience and teamwork,&#8221; according to a story in [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10107,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions\/10107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}