{"id":59096,"date":"2012-01-17T14:59:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T21:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=59096"},"modified":"2012-01-17T14:59:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T21:59:53","slug":"time-to-learn-to-kite-surf-at-age-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=59096","title":{"rendered":"Time to Learn to Kite Surf &#8230; at Age 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/pix04.revsci.net\/G07608\/a4\/0\/0\/pcx.js?csid=G07608\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When Louis Gomez, first saw kite surfers on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, at age 65, it didn&#8217;t occur to him that he might be too old to take up such a demanding activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I told my wife that sport just didn&#8217;t exist when I was younger,&#8221; Mr. Gomez said. &#8220;To heck with that, I wanted to try it because I wanted to do it. It was a challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Louis Gomez uses larger kites when the wind is gentle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now he&#8217;s 73 and, he says\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204542404577159233854946716.html\" 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>When Louis Gomez, first saw kite surfers on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, at age 65, it didn&#8217;t occur to him that he might be too old to take up such a demanding activity. &#8220;I told my wife that sport just didn&#8217;t exist when I was younger,&#8221; Mr. Gomez said. &#8220;To heck with that, I wanted to [&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-59096","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\/59096","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=59096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59097,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59096\/revisions\/59097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}