{"id":20260,"date":"2021-06-16T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20260"},"modified":"2021-06-16T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:13:15","slug":"board-certified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/board-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Certified"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=summerguide_2021&amp;pageNumber=90&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Navy vet Scott Smith choreographs the dance of summer<br \/>\nsurfers at Gooch\u2019s Beach in Kennebunk.<\/p>\n<p>By Diane Hudson<\/p>\n<p>Seasoned surfing instructor Scott Smith got into teaching at Aquaholics surf camp in Kennebunk ten years ago because of a health scare. \u201cThe former owner took me under her wing, knowing this sport would give me the boost I needed.\u201d Three days a week all summer, Smith coaches kids 8 and up in groups with a 1 to 3 coach-to-student ratio for three hour-and-a-half lessons per session ($175, wetsuit and surfboard provided).<\/p>\n<p>A veteran of eight years in the Navy with five years at sea\u2014three stationed in Japan\u2014Smith, 52, a former military law enforcement instructor, left the service with what he calls \u201ca little bit of an edge\u201d after losing thirty percent<\/p>\n<p><em>See the full story\u00a0in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-surfing-fb.jpg\" alt=\"sg21-surfing-fb\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-surfing-fb.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-surfing-fb-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-surfing-fb-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-surfing-fb-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-surfing-fb-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-surfing-fb-620x326.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch the wave:<br \/>\nSurf School \u201921.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20275,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260\/revisions\/20275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}