{"id":69355,"date":"2012-08-30T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T22:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69355"},"modified":"2012-08-30T15:13:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T22:13:30","slug":"sailing-namibia-international-speed-sailing-billed-for-luderitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69355","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Namibia: International Speed Sailing Billed for L\u00c3\u00bcderitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fasten your seatbelts, the fastest sailors on the planet are ready for the annual L\u00c3\u00bcderitz Speed Challenge, to be held in early November at Namibia&#8217;s most famous speed strip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The international speed sailing event has been taking place since 2007 in the southern part of the country and since then, many national and world records have tumbled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Interestingly, the L\u00c3\u00bcderitz Speed Challenge is a battle of two fierce and eternal rivals: kite boarders and windsurfers. This year, a tougher side-by-side war is expected, as\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201208290850.html\" 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>Fasten your seatbelts, the fastest sailors on the planet are ready for the annual L\u00c3\u00bcderitz Speed Challenge, to be held in early November at Namibia&#8217;s most famous speed strip. The international speed sailing event has been taking place since 2007 in the southern part of the country and since then, many national and world records [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69355","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=69355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69356,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69355\/revisions\/69356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}