{"id":68852,"date":"2012-08-18T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68852"},"modified":"2012-08-18T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T15:12:10","slug":"river-kayaking-las-best-kept-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68852","title":{"rendered":"River kayaking: L.A.&#8217;s best-kept secret?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chris Erskine joins a group kayaking trip down a section of the Los Angeles River. Stop smirking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve always liked slow-moving rivers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d mirrors to moonlight and literature, our first and best interstates, running over rocks, as Norman Maclean so deftly put it, &#8220;from the basement of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So what am I doing in the San Fernando Valley, a mile from the junction of the 405 and 101? Running a river, baby. Wall of trees to my left. Wall of trees to my right. Dozens of species of chattering birds. Minnows doing button-hooks beneath a ribbon of urban drool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Honestly, if someone blindfolded and plopped you down here\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/home\/articles\/la-hm-erskine-20120818,0,5160156.column\" 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>Chris Erskine joins a group kayaking trip down a section of the Los Angeles River. Stop smirking. I&#8217;ve always liked slow-moving rivers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d mirrors to moonlight and literature, our first and best interstates, running over rocks, as Norman Maclean so deftly put it, &#8220;from the basement of time.&#8221; So what am I doing in the [&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-68852","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\/68852","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=68852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68854,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68852\/revisions\/68854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}