{"id":45250,"date":"2011-02-28T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=45250"},"modified":"2011-02-28T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:23:29","slug":"the-wind-explorer-kite-car-crosses-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=45250","title":{"rendered":"The Wind Explorer kite (car) crosses Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kitesurfers Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer had an incredible idea. Let&#8217;s build a 200-kilogram car that is, at the same time, a kitesurfing craft and a wind turbine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meet the &#8220;Wind Explorer&#8221;, a powerful convertible that has crossed the Australian continent in 18 days. That&#8217;s a 3,000-mile trip that only needed \u00c2\u00a310 of electricity to complete the challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There&#8217;s no gas or gasoline involved\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/kiteboarding\/5119-the-wind-explorer-kite-crosses-australia\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>Kitesurfers Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer had an incredible idea. Let&#8217;s build a 200-kilogram car that is, at the same time, a kitesurfing craft and a wind turbine. Meet the &#8220;Wind Explorer&#8221;, a powerful convertible that has crossed the Australian continent in 18 days. That&#8217;s a 3,000-mile trip that only needed \u00c2\u00a310 of electricity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45250","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=45250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45251,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45250\/revisions\/45251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}