{"id":37921,"date":"2012-11-12T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T18:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=37921"},"modified":"2012-11-12T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:10:15","slug":"lewis-samuels-sheep-on-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=37921","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Samuels: Sheep On Acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/srfp-120500-cool-005-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/srfp-120500-cool-005-1.jpg','popup','width=600,height=399,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\/2012\/11\/srfp-120500-cool-005-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Srfp-120500-Cool-005-1\" \/><\/a>The May issue of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfermag.com\/features\/culture-of-cool\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfer Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> features an essay by <strong>Lewis Samuels<\/strong> titled, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfermag.com\/features\/culture-of-cool\/\" target=\"_blank\">Culture of Cool: Surfers Are Sheep. Here Are The Details<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. The bit features the following line that few can honestly argue with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want to believe I\u2019m an individual. I want to believe that my life choices add up to something unique. But the evidence sure as hell suggests otherwise. I\u2019m indistinguishable from the rest of the surf-hipster herd. The sad thing is, I don\u2019t even feel like part of the tribe. Instead, I am who I hate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfermag.com\/features\/culture-of-cool\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click the link<\/a><\/strong> for the rest for more of the annoying-yet-compelling hipster navel gazing that Samuels does so well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfermag.com\/features\/culture-of-cool\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfer Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The May issue of Surfer Magazine features an essay by Lewis Samuels titled, Culture of Cool: Surfers Are Sheep. Here Are The Details. The bit features the following line that few can honestly argue with: I want to believe I\u2019m an individual. I want to believe that my life choices add up to something unique. [&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\/37921"}],"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=37921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37926,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37921\/revisions\/37926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}