{"id":11333,"date":"2012-09-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/19\/local-hawaiian-surfer-wins-mauritius-meet-after-finding-hanuman-on-beach\/"},"modified":"2012-09-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T12:00:00","slug":"local-hawaiian-surfer-wins-mauritius-meet-after-finding-hanuman-on-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/19\/local-hawaiian-surfer-wins-mauritius-meet-after-finding-hanuman-on-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Hawaiian Surfer Wins Mauritius Meet After Finding Hanuman on Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mailto:mailto:gonemaui@gmail.com\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MAUI, HAWAII, September 17, 2012 (HPI): Patri McLaughlin of Maui unexpectedly won the KSP World Tour Kitesurf competition in Mauritius, which has a large Hindu population. According to his family (&#8220;source&#8221; above), &#8220;Prior to the finals, Patri was walking on the beach there when a small Deity of Lord Hanuman washed up right in front of him. Hanuman is considered the son of the Wind God, Vayu [auspicious for a kite surfer&#8211;a variation on wave surfing where the surfer is propelled by a large kite on a long rope tied to his waist]. It was a sweet blessing. Patri is known for his sportsmanship. We have seen him in competition help rescue an opponent&#8217;s kite.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Born in 1989, Patri lived on Oahu from age 1 to 4 then moved to Maui where he has resided ever since. Patri is a lifelong vegetarian and both of his parents are Hare Krishna devotees. You can see him surf <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northkites.com\/team\/international\/patri-mclaughlin\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kspworldtour.com\/the-riders\/149\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAUI, HAWAII, September 17, 2012 (HPI): Patri McLaughlin of Maui unexpectedly won the KSP World Tour Kitesurf competition in Mauritius,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}