{"id":36837,"date":"2010-09-07T06:55:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T13:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36837"},"modified":"2010-09-07T20:45:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T03:45:56","slug":"pwc-kiwi-sam-harvey-to-defend-world-title-on-sea-doo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36837","title":{"rendered":"PWC &#8211; Kiwi Sam Harvey to defend world title on Sea-Doo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">New Zealand&#8217;s Sam Harvey is ready to defend his world championship personal watercraft (PWC or jet-ski) racing title at the International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA) world finals in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, which start on 3 October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Harvey, a marine retailer in Howick, Auckland, rides a Sea-Doo\u00c2\u00ae PWC and won the Pro Runabout Open title \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a class for modified PWCs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in 2009. This victory marked the first time a New Zealander had won a world title in PWC racing and was Harvey&#8217;s first world final win after competing at the prestigious IJSBA world finals every year for the past ten years. Harvey&#8217;s success was particularly notable as it represented the first time a non-American entrant and also one not backed by one of the major PWC manufacturers won this hotly-contested professional class &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/index.cfm?Nid=74404&amp;refre=y&amp;ntid=0\" 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>New Zealand&#8217;s Sam Harvey is ready to defend his world championship personal watercraft (PWC or jet-ski) racing title at the International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA) world finals in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, which start on 3 October. Harvey, a marine retailer in Howick, Auckland, rides a Sea-Doo\u00c2\u00ae PWC and won the Pro Runabout Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-pwc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36837","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=36837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36884,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36837\/revisions\/36884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}