{"id":51491,"date":"2011-07-04T22:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T05:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=51491"},"modified":"2011-07-04T22:56:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T05:56:33","slug":"speed-sailing-america-rules-the-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=51491","title":{"rendered":"Speed Sailing: America Rules the Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The next time you&#8217;re in a car going 60 mph (97 kph), assuming it&#8217;s safe to do so, stick your head out the window. Now, imagine going this fast while riding a tiny piece of foam and plastic over about a foot of water in some windswept trench on the African Coast, while simultaneously holding onto a massive kite that wants to do nothing less than rip your arms right out of their sockets. Sound tough? Well, now consider stepping out of the car! Because that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s like when things go wrong in the ultimate speed sailing challenge. That&#8217;s right &#8211; nobody said being the fastest in the world was easy, but at least once you&#8217;ve earned the title, you&#8217;d expect your countrymen and peers in sport to cheer your incredible feat, wouldn&#8217;t you? Well, countrymen and peers?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yachtpals.com\/speed-sailing-9408\" 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>The next time you&#8217;re in a car going 60 mph (97 kph), assuming it&#8217;s safe to do so, stick your head out the window. Now, imagine going this fast while riding a tiny piece of foam and plastic over about a foot of water in some windswept trench on the African Coast, while simultaneously holding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,33,32,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-kiteboard","category-sailing","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51491","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=51491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51492,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51491\/revisions\/51492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}