{"id":53763,"date":"2011-08-28T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53763"},"modified":"2011-08-28T09:22:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T16:22:52","slug":"kayak-water-skiing-disabled-enjoy-day-on-the-water-with-special-skis-kayaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53763","title":{"rendered":"Kayak &#038; Water Skiing &#8211; Disabled enjoy day on the water with special skis, kayaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ron DeMitchell&#8217;s first attempt at waterskiing ended with him on his backside in Pontiac Lake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Macomb Township resident&#8217;s next try was a success, and he took three circles around the lake Friday as part of a recreational outing for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I thought that was my best run,&#8221; DeMitchell, who is blind, said of his third pass. &#8220;It was awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">DeMitchell, 21, and about two dozen others took part in\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20110827\/METRO03\/108270334\/1412\/METRO03\/Disabled-enjoy-day-on-the-water-with-special-skis--kayaks\" 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>Ron DeMitchell&#8217;s first attempt at waterskiing ended with him on his backside in Pontiac Lake. The Macomb Township resident&#8217;s next try was a success, and he took three circles around the lake Friday as part of a recreational outing for people with disabilities. &#8220;I thought that was my best run,&#8221; DeMitchell, who is blind, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-wakeboard-tubing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763","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=53763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53764,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763\/revisions\/53764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}