{"id":135215,"date":"2017-09-02T12:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=135215"},"modified":"2017-09-02T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T19:30:30","slug":"paddlers-gather-in-kona-for-the-annual-queen-liliuokalani-canoe-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=135215","title":{"rendered":"Paddlers gather in Kona for the annual Queen Liliuokalani Canoe Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KAILUA-KONA \u2014 The waters on the west side of the island will be a bit more populated for Labor Day weekend \u2014 as is tradition this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of crews and thousands of paddlers from around the globe have assembled on the Big Island for the 46th edition of the Queen Liliuokalani Canoe Races. The legendary Wa\u2019a Kaukahi men\u2019s and women\u2019s races are slated for Saturday, but the festivities started on Thursday and run through Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The event \u2014 which is touted as the world\u2019s largest outrigger canoe race \u2014 has grown by leaps and bounds since its humble beginnings almost half-a-century ago, expanding from a single race with a handful of crews to a full five-day slate of events.<\/p>\n<p>Crews from as far as\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/westhawaiitoday.com\/sports\/local-sports\/paddlers-gather-kona-annual-queen-liliuokalani-canoe-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAILUA-KONA \u2014 The waters on the west side of the island will be a bit more populated for Labor Day weekend \u2014 as is tradition this time of year. Hundreds of crews and thousands of paddlers from around the globe have assembled on the Big Island for the 46th edition of the Queen Liliuokalani Canoe [&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-135215","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\/135215","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=135215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135216,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135215\/revisions\/135216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}