{"id":28153,"date":"2010-02-27T11:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T18:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=28153"},"modified":"2010-02-27T11:51:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T18:51:35","slug":"kayak-riders-of-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=28153","title":{"rendered":"Kayak &#8211; Riders of the storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ben Stubbs is at one with the elements on a bracing ocean paddle from Mossy Point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We stroke through the estuary, letting the tide pull us out towards the open ocean. My kayaking guide, Josh Waterson, pauses behind me for a moment as a finger of lightning escapes across the hills. It&#8217;s followed seconds later by a burst of thunder that cracks like a stockman&#8217;s whip. I was told when I was young that each second between lightning and thunder indicates one kilometre between the storm and where you stand. On the next crack I count to only two\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/travel\/riders-of-the-storm-20100224-p2wz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stubbs is at one with the elements on a bracing ocean paddle from Mossy Point. We stroke through the estuary, letting the tide pull us out towards the open ocean. My kayaking guide, Josh Waterson, pauses behind me for a moment as a finger of lightning escapes across the hills. It&#8217;s followed seconds later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153","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=28153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28154,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153\/revisions\/28154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}