{"id":40557,"date":"2010-11-20T12:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T19:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40557"},"modified":"2010-11-20T12:51:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T19:51:48","slug":"water-skiing-sydney-bridge-to-bridge-houston-takes-top-honours-on-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40557","title":{"rendered":"Water Skiing &#8211; Sydney Bridge to Bridge &#8211; Houston takes top honours on day one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sydney Bridge to Bridge &#8211; Reigning Sydney Bridge to Bridge champion Greg Houston started his title defence in fine style today by winning the short Hawkesbury Hot Shots Super Class pole setting event in record time &#8211; all in a new Force F21 boat that the Stinga team finished preparing on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8216;We knew we needed a Force 21 for an event like this,&#8217; Houston admitted afterwards, &#8216;because the F24 that we had for the world titles last year is too big and heavy for the river races, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d decided to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcretire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the Connelly, but it all came together a bit later than we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have liked\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/index.cfm?Nid=77154&amp;refre=y&amp;ntid=0&amp;rid=4\" 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>Sydney Bridge to Bridge &#8211; Reigning Sydney Bridge to Bridge champion Greg Houston started his title defence in fine style today by winning the short Hawkesbury Hot Shots Super Class pole setting event in record time &#8211; all in a new Force F21 boat that the Stinga team finished preparing on Thursday evening. &#8216;We knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-water-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40557","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=40557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40559,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40557\/revisions\/40559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}