{"id":149301,"date":"2019-03-07T20:36:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T03:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=149301"},"modified":"2019-03-07T20:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T03:36:38","slug":"water-ski-video-kick-their-butt-jason-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=149301","title":{"rendered":"Water Ski Video &#8211; &#8216;Kick their butt&#8217; &#8211; Jason Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Kick their butt&#8217;: The paraplegic, double amputee, water-ski extraordinaire<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sleep grew up going water-skiing with his family every weekend at Lake Eppalock in central Victoria. In 2001, when he was 29, a fall from a quad bike left him a paraplegic. Jason Sleep at the 2017 World Championships at Myuna Bay, NSW.Credit. Shane Morgan, Timbertop PhotographyIn 2004, to avoid &#8220;sitting about whingeing&#8221;, he asked his dad, Ian, to take him water-skiing at Exford Weir, near Melton. Mr Sleep sat in a special cage, which was padded to suit his body and bolted to a ski. He says he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rxyvbu_TFbE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Kick their butt&#8217;: The paraplegic, double amputee, water-ski extraordinaire Mr Sleep grew up going water-skiing with his family every weekend at Lake Eppalock in central Victoria. In 2001, when he was 29, a fall from a quad bike left him a paraplegic. Jason Sleep at the 2017 World Championships at Myuna Bay, NSW.Credit. Shane Morgan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,73,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-video-general","category-water-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149301","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=149301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149302,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149301\/revisions\/149302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}