{"id":1192,"date":"2013-11-11T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2013-11-11T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:05:44","slug":"feature-article-in-surfer-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/2013\/11\/11\/feature-article-in-surfer-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Article in Surfer Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alchemy of Gambia<\/p>\n<p>by Will Bendix<\/p>\n<p>Chasing Elusive Perfection on West Africa&#8217;s Coast<\/p>\n<p>The sound of metal on metal scraped through the air with a crack, sending the pack of naked boys that waited nervously on the shore scattering into the shallows. Behind them stood a tall, orange creature with fibrous cords covering its entire body like the straw stalks of a scarecrow, with each hand clutching a long, sharp blade. The air was tinged with smoke and steady beat swelled from a nearby drum circle as the creature again smashed the blades together and wailed to the ocean. It was time to lop off some foreskins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alchemy of Gambia by Will Bendix Chasing Elusive Perfection on West Africa&#8217;s Coast The sound of metal on metal scraped through the air with a crack, sending the pack of naked boys that waited nervously on the shore scattering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/2013\/11\/11\/feature-article-in-surfer-magazine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}