{"id":62673,"date":"2012-04-05T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=62673"},"modified":"2012-04-05T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:51:09","slug":"land-sailors-head-to-desert-for-world-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=62673","title":{"rendered":"Land sailors head to desert for world champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When Ted Phillip opens the curtains in the morning and finds a good old Manawatu westerly blowing, he is in heaven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His celebrations don&#8217;t go down well with those who aren&#8217;t his accomplices in the land-sailing sport known as blokarting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t have many friends,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People say, `the bloody wind in Palmerston North&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not Phillip. He packs his sleek 29kg kart into the boot of his car and heads for Coronation Park, the Sanson sports ground or Himatangi and Foxton beaches. Sometimes a secondary runway at Ohakea will be opened for them, or a Massey University car park\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/manawatu-standard\/sport\/6699316\/Land-sailors-head-to-desert-for-world-champs\" 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 Ted Phillip opens the curtains in the morning and finds a good old Manawatu westerly blowing, he is in heaven. His celebrations don&#8217;t go down well with those who aren&#8217;t his accomplices in the land-sailing sport known as blokarting. &#8220;You don&#8217;t have many friends,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People say, `the bloody wind in Palmerston North&#8217;.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,60,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-off-road-auto","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62673","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=62673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62674,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62673\/revisions\/62674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}