{"id":20295,"date":"2009-09-10T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20295"},"modified":"2009-09-11T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T18:41:36","slug":"kiteboard-aussie-daredevils-kite-surf-notorious-bass-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20295","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboard &#8211; Aussie daredevils kite-surf notorious Bass Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two Australian dare-devils have claimed a world first by kite-surfing across the notoriously stormy waters from Tasmania to the mainland, despite falling agonisingly short of the finish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Close friends James Weight and Ben Morrison-Jack braved giant swells on their 12-hour trip from the island across the 259 kilometre (161 mile) Bass Strait before winds dropped off just one kilometre from their goal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The two were forced to &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5ge3_BtBdwwFcsqEuZGY6DlDB2nMw\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Australian dare-devils have claimed a world first by kite-surfing across the notoriously stormy waters from Tasmania to the mainland, despite falling agonisingly short of the finish. Close friends James Weight and Ben Morrison-Jack braved giant swells on their 12-hour trip from the island across the 259 kilometre (161 mile) Bass Strait before winds dropped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295","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=20295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20297,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions\/20297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}