{"id":73525,"date":"2012-12-25T09:09:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73525"},"modified":"2012-12-25T09:09:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T16:09:18","slug":"kitesurfing-thrives-in-post-gaddafi-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73525","title":{"rendered":"Kitesurfing thrives in post-Gaddafi Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tripoli: Neon crescents twirl over the sheltered waters of Tripoli&#8217;s main port, one of the hangouts of Libya&#8217;s growing kitesurfing community, thriving after the ouster of dictator Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jalal Elwalid dashes out towards the marina&#8217;s stone walls riding a turbulent 12-knot wind. A gust propels his kite higher and he hangs suspended head-over-heels above the horizon for a magic stretch of seven seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 39-year-old became\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofoman.com\/News\/Article-4657.aspx\" 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>Tripoli: Neon crescents twirl over the sheltered waters of Tripoli&#8217;s main port, one of the hangouts of Libya&#8217;s growing kitesurfing community, thriving after the ouster of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Jalal Elwalid dashes out towards the marina&#8217;s stone walls riding a turbulent 12-knot wind. A gust propels his kite higher and he hangs suspended head-over-heels above [&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-73525","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\/73525","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=73525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73527,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73525\/revisions\/73527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}