{"id":5706,"date":"2009-03-24T07:34:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2009-03-24T08:35:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T15:35:41","slug":"canoe-contest-set-in-concrete-unlv-engineering-students-hard-at-work-building-canoe-for-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5706","title":{"rendered":"Canoe &#8211; CONTEST SET IN CONCRETE: UNLV engineering students hard at work building canoe for national competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">UNLV engineering students hard at work building canoe for national competition<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"story_dropheadline\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"story_body_intro\">\n<p>It is a canoe, precisely 20 feet long, precisely 30 inches wide. It was engineered to weigh as little as possible, a trim 250 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>It is made of concrete. It has floated. It will soon compete in a race.<\/p>\n<p>These facts create a paradox: buoyant concrete.<\/p>\n<p>The canoe is quite nice looking, with a glass mosaic, a gleaming paint job and a nickname tagged on its side. It&#8217;s the result of nearly a year of hard work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I think she&#8217;s amazing,&#8221; said Tiffany Hearn, the captain of the canoe-building team&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/41671172.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- startclickprintexclude --><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNLV engineering students hard at work building canoe for national competition It is a canoe, precisely 20 feet long, precisely 30 inches wide. It was engineered to weigh as little as possible, a trim 250 pounds. It is made of concrete. It has floated. It will soon compete in a race. These facts create a [&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-5706","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\/5706","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=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}