{"id":29785,"date":"2010-03-29T18:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29785"},"modified":"2010-03-29T18:52:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:52:38","slug":"kayak-surf-festival-santa-cruz-kayaker-galen-licht-wins-main-event-as-locals-fare-well-in-other-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29785","title":{"rendered":"Kayak Surf Festival: Santa Cruz kayaker Galen Licht wins main event, as locals fare well in other divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SANTA CRUZ &#8212; Crowd favorite Galen Licht paddled his way to the top of his discipline Sunday at Steamer Lane, winning the men&#8217;s high performance final of the 24th annual Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Licht, the founder of the UC Santa Cruz Kayak Club, beat Northern Ireland&#8217;s Christopher Hobson, Australian Stephen Farthing and Santa Cruzan Dave Johnston in a final that saw the best waves of the event breaking at Steamer Lane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It feels great to finally win this contest after eight years of competing,&#8221; Licht said. &#8220;This contest means\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/sports\/ci_14777168\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA CRUZ &#8212; Crowd favorite Galen Licht paddled his way to the top of his discipline Sunday at Steamer Lane, winning the men&#8217;s high performance final of the 24th annual Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival. Licht, the founder of the UC Santa Cruz Kayak Club, beat Northern Ireland&#8217;s Christopher Hobson, Australian Stephen Farthing and Santa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29785","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=29785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29787,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29785\/revisions\/29787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}