{"id":7512,"date":"2009-04-05T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7512"},"modified":"2009-04-05T10:53:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T17:53:45","slug":"canoe-wind-delays-concrete-canoe-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7512","title":{"rendered":"Canoe &#8211; Wind delays concrete canoe race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Engineering students were cheerful at Utah Lake on Friday, despite strong, frigid winds that canceled their concrete canoe races. Brigham Young University professor Brett Borup told participants from schools around the country that the high winds made the water too dangerous for the races. They would have worked through rain or snow, he said, but the boat that was set to rescue any troubled boaters could not even keep itself on the water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Instead, the teams did a &#8220;swamp test&#8221; on the individual canoes to make sure they could even float&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldextra.com\/content\/view\/305035\/17\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details and Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;offerid=162158.10000118&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><IMG alt=\"Free Residential Ground Shipping on orders over $150. expires 3.31.09\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.thenorthface.com\/tnfimages\/0309_fsh150_468x60.jpg\"><\/a><IMG border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;bids=162158.10000118&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineering students were cheerful at Utah Lake on Friday, despite strong, frigid winds that canceled their concrete canoe races. Brigham Young University professor Brett Borup told participants from schools around the country that the high winds made the water too dangerous for the races. They would have worked through rain or snow, he said, but [&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-7512","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\/7512","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=7512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7514,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions\/7514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}