{"id":6584,"date":"2009-03-30T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2020-03-21T19:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T02:29:57","slug":"kiteboard-sailboard-james-court-and-jimmie-fourie-win-the-harbour-blast-race-in-wellington-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6584","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboard Sailboard &#8211; James Court and Jimmie Fourie win the Harbour Blast Race in Wellington Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6585\" title=\"wellingtonharbour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/wellingtonharbour-150x86.jpg\" alt=\"wellingtonharbour\" width=\"150\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/wellingtonharbour-150x86.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/wellingtonharbour.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/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=\"https:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\">Details<\/a><\/p>\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":[5,33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","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=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156575,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions\/156575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}