{"id":14606,"date":"2009-06-15T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14606"},"modified":"2009-06-15T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:52:47","slug":"sailing-off-road-heaven-is-a-blokart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14606","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Off-road &#8211; Heaven is a Blokart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14607\" title=\"blokart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/blokart.bmp\" alt=\"blokart\" \/>Science was never my strong suit. So when Garry Ingram, Track Manager at Blokart Heaven in Papamoa, tells me that what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m about to do is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all about physics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, I instantly panic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Suiting up with a helmet and weathered fingerless gloves, my trepidation and I follow Garry to our waiting blokart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Blokarting (pronounced blow-karting) is a form of land sailing, invented here in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s North Island. The blokart is a three-wheeled, steel-framed buggy with an enormous triangular sail shooting skywards. The user nestles into a canvas cradle at near ground level, from where they steer and control the sail with ropes&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/News\/HealthNews\/Heaven-is-a-Blokart\/tabid\/420\/articleID\/108594\/cat\/58\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science was never my strong suit. So when Garry Ingram, Track Manager at Blokart Heaven in Papamoa, tells me that what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m about to do is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all about physics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, I instantly panic. Suiting up with a helmet and weathered fingerless gloves, my trepidation and I follow Garry to our waiting blokart. Blokarting (pronounced blow-karting) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,60,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-off-road-auto","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606","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=14606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14634,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions\/14634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}