{"id":16306,"date":"2009-07-12T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16306"},"modified":"2012-08-05T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T23:22:02","slug":"water-skiing-65-skiers-tackle-the-long-beach-catalina-island-race-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16306","title":{"rendered":"Water Skiing &#8211; 65 skiers tackle the Long Beach-Catalina Island race circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212; Sixty-five skiers raced the circuit from Long Beach to Catalina Island and back Saturday as hundreds of spectators watched near the start and finish line at the Queen Mary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For many spectators, it was a family affair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;There isn&#8217;t a better ambience for an event like this than what we have here in Long Beach,&#8221; said spectator David McMahon, who came to the race with his son.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 61st annual Long Beach-Catalina-Long Beach Ski Race is part of Powerfest 2009, which is supported by Charter Communications Long Beach Sea Festival&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/california\/ci_12817857?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212; Sixty-five skiers raced the circuit from Long Beach to Catalina Island and back Saturday as hundreds of spectators watched near the start and finish line at the Queen Mary. For many spectators, it was a family affair. &#8220;There isn&#8217;t a better ambience for an event like this than what we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-water-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306","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=16306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68014,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions\/68014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}