{"id":131106,"date":"2017-04-25T19:40:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=131106"},"modified":"2017-04-25T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T03:01:29","slug":"kayaker-ben-stookesberry-on-his-four-days-as-a-hostage-in-farc-held-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=131106","title":{"rendered":"Kayaker Ben Stookesberry On His Four Days As a Hostage in FARC-Held Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kayaker Ben Stookesberry, who\u2019s featured on the cover of this month\u2019s <i>Men\u2019s Journal<\/i>, had his expedition cut short last week when he was stopped and held by a team of rogue elements of Colombia\u2019s rebel FARC army, which for decades controlled large swathes of the country and made kidnapping a cottage industry.<\/p>\n<p>Stookesberry and an international team of whitewater paddlers were in the midst of the first descent of the R\u00edo Apaporis, which snakes 700 miles through the Colombian rainforest and drops over seven distinct waterfalls. The paddlers were among the first adventurers to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mensjournal.com\/adventure\/articles\/kayaker-ben-stookesberry-on-his-four-days-as-a-hostage-in-colombia-w478770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayaker Ben Stookesberry, who\u2019s featured on the cover of this month\u2019s Men\u2019s Journal, had his expedition cut short last week when he was stopped and held by a team of rogue elements of Colombia\u2019s rebel FARC army, which for decades controlled large swathes of the country and made kidnapping a cottage industry. Stookesberry and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131106","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=131106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131107,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131106\/revisions\/131107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}