{"id":57432,"date":"2011-12-07T21:31:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T04:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=57432"},"modified":"2011-12-07T21:31:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T04:31:42","slug":"kiteboarding-and-theyre-off-inaugural-kiteboard-racing-at-phuket-kings-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=57432","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboarding &#8211; And they&#8217;re off: Inaugural Kiteboard racing at Phuket King&#8217;s Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Much has been said of mixing kite boarding and sailing and much more will be said in the lead up to the 2016 Olympics as the kite board fraternity pitch to be an official event. While these discussions continue, the Phuket King&#8217;s Cup Regatta in Thailand has taken a bold step introducing a Kiteboard Class to the 25-year old multi-class regatta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kevin Whitcraft, President of the Regatta Organising Committee explains, &#8216;ISAF is promoting kite boarding and it could be an Olympic demonstration event as soon as 2016 in Brazil.&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=0&amp;Nid=91575&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" 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>Much has been said of mixing kite boarding and sailing and much more will be said in the lead up to the 2016 Olympics as the kite board fraternity pitch to be an official event. While these discussions continue, the Phuket King&#8217;s Cup Regatta in Thailand has taken a bold step introducing a Kiteboard Class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57432","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=57432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57433,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57432\/revisions\/57433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}