{"id":65538,"date":"2012-06-14T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T20:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65538"},"modified":"2012-06-14T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T20:37:58","slug":"windsurfing-why-was-it-voted-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65538","title":{"rendered":"Windsurfing: Why was it voted out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Top US Womens Windsurfer, Lanee Beashel writes:\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To say that I&#8217;ve been completely shocked and heartbroken since I heard the news that windsurfing was kicked out of the 2016 Olympic Games, would be an understatement. I sail, windsurf and kitesurf, but since I have been 15 years old, my passion has been windsurfing. Even now, when I take my two young boys out on my board with me, I love every minute of it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">20 years of my life, I proudly represented the USA at two Youth Worlds, two Women&#8217;s Worlds, one\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/index.cfm?Nid=98438&amp;refre=y&amp;ntid=0&amp;rid=4\" 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>Top US Womens Windsurfer, Lanee Beashel writes:\u00c2\u00a0 To say that I&#8217;ve been completely shocked and heartbroken since I heard the news that windsurfing was kicked out of the 2016 Olympic Games, would be an understatement. I sail, windsurf and kitesurf, but since I have been 15 years old, my passion has been windsurfing. Even now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65538","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=65538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65539,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65538\/revisions\/65539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}