{"id":69602,"date":"2012-09-06T13:26:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69602"},"modified":"2012-09-06T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:26:53","slug":"at-the-speed-of-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69602","title":{"rendered":"At the Speed of Kite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These days, top kitesurfers blow away the fastest sailboats, maxing out at more than 60 miles per hour. Dangerous? Yep. Especially when the world&#8217;s best converge on storm-raked Martha&#8217;s Vineyard to duke it out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I arrive at the boathouse in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on Martha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Vineyard, late and underdressed for what turns out to be a semiformal dinner at a very formal yacht club. Blue blazers, slacks, and penny loafers predominate, a bagpiper pipes, and conversations are conducted half in French and half in English. During cocktails, a handsome young man named Brock Callen climbs to a balcony suspended between the cathedral ceiling and two small brass cannons shelf-mounted over a fireplace. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Welcome to the first-ever North American Speed Sailing Invitational,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he announces, raising a flute of champagne\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/water-activities\/kiteboarding\/At-the-Speed-of-Kite-20120813.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>These days, top kitesurfers blow away the fastest sailboats, maxing out at more than 60 miles per hour. Dangerous? Yep. Especially when the world&#8217;s best converge on storm-raked Martha&#8217;s Vineyard to duke it out. I arrive at the boathouse in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on Martha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Vineyard, late and underdressed for what turns out to be a [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69602","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=69602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69603,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69602\/revisions\/69603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}