{"id":11837,"date":"2009-05-08T17:46:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T00:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11837"},"modified":"2009-05-09T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T19:29:10","slug":"kayak-reno-river-festival-sport-has-made-reno-kayaker-a-world-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11837","title":{"rendered":"Kayak &#8211; RENO RIVER FESTIVAL: Sport has made Reno kayaker a world traveler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Walk north over the Arlington Street Bridge in Reno, and as you are crossing look to your right at the Truckee River down below.<br \/>\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably see local professional Stephen Wright in his yellow kayak, twisting in the rapids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"aa\">Like many local kayakers, the 31-year-old is preparing for the 6th annual Reno River Festival that starts today at Wingfield Park. But for Wright, preparing and training for the festival feels like something else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153(I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m) doing a lot of paddling getting ready for (the Reno River Festival),\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wright said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all just fun. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not really training as much as going out and playing and trying to do as much as possible. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to consider it training when you are just having a good time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The three-time and current U.S. National Freestyle champion will compete &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rgj.com\/article\/20090507\/NEWS18\/90507067\/1321\/NEWS\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk north over the Arlington Street Bridge in Reno, and as you are crossing look to your right at the Truckee River down below. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably see local professional Stephen Wright in his yellow kayak, twisting in the rapids. Like many local kayakers, the 31-year-old is preparing for the 6th annual Reno River Festival that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11875,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837\/revisions\/11875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}