{"id":69255,"date":"2012-08-27T13:33:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69255"},"modified":"2012-08-27T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:33:58","slug":"lake-superior-kayak-crossing-raises-money-to-help-addicts-teen-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69255","title":{"rendered":"Lake Superior kayak crossing raises money to help addicts, Teen Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Christopher Owen says that when he was battling addiction, there were times he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Saturday, he said, as he arrived in Two Harbors after completing a 22-mile kayak crossing of Lake Superior, he never felt more alive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Owen and two other men with ties to the Minnesota Teen Challenge addiction treatment program in Duluth successfully completed their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Crossing Over\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lake Superior traverse Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Teen Challenge graduates Owen and Adam Matthys\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/241205\/\" 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>Christopher Owen says that when he was battling addiction, there were times he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to live. Saturday, he said, as he arrived in Two Harbors after completing a 22-mile kayak crossing of Lake Superior, he never felt more alive. Owen and two other men with ties to the Minnesota Teen Challenge addiction treatment program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,71,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69255","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=69255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69256,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69255\/revisions\/69256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}