{"id":5531,"date":"2009-03-22T14:06:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T21:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2009-03-22T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T21:23:31","slug":"kayak-competitors-make-the-most-of-small-waves-at-23rd-annual-santa-cruz-kayak-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5531","title":{"rendered":"Kayak &#8211; Competitors make the most of small waves at 23rd annual Santa Cruz Kayak Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5532\" title=\"kayak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/kayak.jpg\" alt=\"kayak\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kayak.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kayak-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SANTA CRUZ &#8212; The waves haven&#8217;t been as kind to Santa Cruz Surf Kayak Festival competitors as it was at last year&#8217;s event, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped more than 100 kayakers, wave skiers and &#8212; for the first time &#8212; stand-up paddle boarders from taking over Steamer Lane this weekend for the three-day event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Participants fought through ankle- to knee-high waves and blustery weather Saturday to qualify for today&#8217;s final rounds at the 23rd annual festival, which is considered the largest surf kayak competition in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The contests draws surf kayakers from all around the world. Chris Harvey of Guerns, England, who won the World Cup division last year, called it one of &#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/centralcoast\/ci_11970213\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA CRUZ &#8212; The waves haven&#8217;t been as kind to Santa Cruz Surf Kayak Festival competitors as it was at last year&#8217;s event, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped more than 100 kayakers, wave skiers and &#8212; for the first time &#8212; stand-up paddle boarders from taking over Steamer Lane this weekend for the three-day event. Participants [&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-5531","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\/5531","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=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5551,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}