{"id":7597,"date":"2009-04-05T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T17:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2009-04-05T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T18:13:55","slug":"rafting-vail-valley-rafters-head-to-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7597","title":{"rendered":"Rafting &#8211; Vail Valley rafters head to world championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">VAIL VALLEY, Colorado \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Eagle resident Mike Reid remembers his first world rafting championship as one of the most intense experiences of his life \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he and five other teammates were paddling down a river in the Czech Republic against the Russian national team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There were probably 5,000 people on either side of the river,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Reid. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re wearing the American colors, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re racing the Russians. We were pretty into it. Seeing the two boats come down the straightaway \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it was one of most intense things you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d ever seen.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/article\/20090404\/NEWS\/904039905\/1078&amp;ParentProfile=1062\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/placeholder-3701072?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VAIL VALLEY, Colorado \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Eagle resident Mike Reid remembers his first world rafting championship as one of the most intense experiences of his life \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he and five other teammates were paddling down a river in the Czech Republic against the Russian national team. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There were probably 5,000 people on either side of the river,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&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-7597","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\/7597","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=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}