{"id":6529,"date":"2009-03-29T20:36:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T03:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2009-03-30T10:04:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:04:06","slug":"kiteboard-lets-go-fly-a-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6529","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboard &#8211; Let&#8217;s go fly a kite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6530\" title=\"kite\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/kite-600x349.jpg\" alt=\"kite\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kite-600x349.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kite-150x87.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kite.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">About 38 windsurfers and six kitesurfers took full advantage of yesterday&#8217;s blustery Wellington morning for their annual &#8220;Harbour Blast&#8221; race around Matiu\/Somes Island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was the first time in the history of the decades-old race that kitesurfers had taken part &#8211; though they had to start later than their water-bound colleagues for safety reasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Race officer Bob Zuur, of Wellington Windsurfing Association, said racers took off from Hikoikoi reserve in Petone about 11am and finished at Eastbourne some 25 minutes later&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/news\/wellington\/2300313\/Lets-go-fly-a-kite\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 38 windsurfers and six kitesurfers took full advantage of yesterday&#8217;s blustery Wellington morning for their annual &#8220;Harbour Blast&#8221; race around Matiu\/Somes Island. It was the first time in the history of the decades-old race that kitesurfers had taken part &#8211; though they had to start later than their water-bound colleagues for safety reasons. Race [&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-6529","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\/6529","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=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6608,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}