{"id":35625,"date":"2010-08-17T20:09:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T03:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35625"},"modified":"2010-08-17T20:09:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T03:09:32","slug":"dragon-boat-racing-with-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35625","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Boat Racing with Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Regular readers of my YachtPals column will already know that before getting involved in ocean rowing and sailing, I started out in water sports as a paddler, when kayaks and canoes led on to a longstanding \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccareer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in dragon boat racing. For those who haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard of dragon boat racing before, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a traditional Chinese sport and over 2,000 years old. Which kind of gives the Chinese a bit of a head start! I started paddling aged 16 in school and later qualified for the Great Britain team on every attempt over a 10-year period, winning 25 world and European medals and setting two world records.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dragon boat racing is quite simply an awesome team sport, with up to 20 paddlers sitting side by side, a drummer at\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/yachtpals.com\/dragon-boats-9133\" 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>Regular readers of my YachtPals column will already know that before getting involved in ocean rowing and sailing, I started out in water sports as a paddler, when kayaks and canoes led on to a longstanding \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccareer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in dragon boat racing. For those who haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard of dragon boat racing before, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a traditional Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35625","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\/35625","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=35625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35627,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35625\/revisions\/35627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}