{"id":17293,"date":"2009-07-24T11:21:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T18:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17293"},"modified":"2012-08-05T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T19:52:08","slug":"water-skiing-united-states-dominates-water-skiing-preliminaries-at-world-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17293","title":{"rendered":"Water Skiing &#8211; United States dominates water skiing preliminaries at World Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan &#8212; The water skiing competition opened at the World Games Wednesday at the picturesque Lotus Pond in Kaohsiung, with traditional water ski powerhouse the United States leading in five of the seven events contested.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Elaine Heller had a remarkable run to take the lead in the women&#8217;s barefoot slalom, while Raimi Merritt and Dallas Friday topped the first round of the women&#8217;s wakeboard and Caroline Hensley was leading in the women&#8217;s ski tricks event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the men&#8217;s preliminary round events, American Andrew Adkison held the lead at\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinapost.com.tw\/sports\/other\/2009\/07\/23\/217381\/United-States.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan &#8212; The water skiing competition opened at the World Games Wednesday at the picturesque Lotus Pond in Kaohsiung, with traditional water ski powerhouse the United States leading in five of the seven events contested.\u00c2\u00a0 Elaine Heller had a remarkable run to take the lead in the women&#8217;s barefoot slalom, while Raimi Merritt and [&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-17293","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\/17293","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=17293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67818,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293\/revisions\/67818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}