{"id":52454,"date":"2011-07-28T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52454"},"modified":"2011-07-28T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T04:01:16","slug":"dragon-boat-racing-%e2%80%93-taking-on-the-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52454","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Boat Racing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Taking on the Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Twenty-five years ago, I paddled in my very first Dragon Boat race and it was terrifying and exciting and exhilarating in equal amounts. Next week I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be racing in my 7th World Championships \u00e2\u20ac\u201c running from 4-7 August in Tampa Bay, Florida and right now, the terrifying is nicely tucked away and the excitement is building minute by minute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was 1994 when my coach first suggested that\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yachtpals.com\/dragon-boat-racing-9421\" 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>Twenty-five years ago, I paddled in my very first Dragon Boat race and it was terrifying and exciting and exhilarating in equal amounts. Next week I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be racing in my 7th World Championships \u00e2\u20ac\u201c running from 4-7 August in Tampa Bay, Florida and right now, the terrifying is nicely tucked away and the excitement is [&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-52454","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\/52454","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=52454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52455,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454\/revisions\/52455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}