{"id":64574,"date":"2012-05-19T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64574"},"modified":"2012-05-19T08:27:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:27:47","slug":"legally-blind-kayaker-going-down-mississippi-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64574","title":{"rendered":"Legally blind kayaker going down Mississippi solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Doug Pace had wanted some adventure in his life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d always wanted to do something big,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the North Bay, Ontario, native said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kayaking the Mississippi River solo certainly qualifies. Especially considering he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legally blind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pace, who was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in 2000, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t totally blind. He has 5 degrees of central vision \u00e2\u20ac\u201d something he describes as\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjipioneer.com\/event\/article\/id\/100040087\/\" 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>Doug Pace had wanted some adventure in his life. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d always wanted to do something big,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the North Bay, Ontario, native said. Kayaking the Mississippi River solo certainly qualifies. Especially considering he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legally blind. Pace, who was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in 2000, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t totally blind. He has 5 degrees of central vision \u00e2\u20ac\u201d something [&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-64574","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\/64574","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=64574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64576,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64574\/revisions\/64576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}