{"id":36227,"date":"2010-08-28T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36227"},"modified":"2010-08-28T08:57:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T15:57:32","slug":"flying-fish-knocks-paddler-from-mo-river-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36227","title":{"rendered":"Flying fish knocks paddler from Mo. river race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">COLUMBIA, Mo. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A fish out of water sent a Texas kayaker onto dry land instead of the finish line at an annual Missouri River endurance race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Houston resident Brad Pennington was considered one of the favorites among men&#8217;s solo racers in the Missouri River 340, a canoe and kayak race that began Tuesday morning in Kansas City, Kan. At least until a 30-pound Asian silver carp jumped from the water and hit him in the head. The fish are known to panic and jump in response to passing vessels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It felt like a brick hit me,&#8221; Pennington said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 43-year-old lawyer already was\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gwbfTYXIXPapD1xQFstDnMvf6-nQD9HR9S801\" 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>COLUMBIA, Mo. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A fish out of water sent a Texas kayaker onto dry land instead of the finish line at an annual Missouri River endurance race. Houston resident Brad Pennington was considered one of the favorites among men&#8217;s solo racers in the Missouri River 340, a canoe and kayak race that began Tuesday morning [&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-36227","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\/36227","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=36227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36228,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36227\/revisions\/36228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}