{"id":77783,"date":"2013-04-12T07:10:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T14:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77783"},"modified":"2013-04-13T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T15:27:44","slug":"wood-vs-composite-canoe-purchase-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77783","title":{"rendered":"Wood vs. Composite Canoe Purchase Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Commonly, when someone sees a wooden canoe the reaction is somewhat stunned at its beauty but quite unsure whether it would float or not. Why then would someone quickly step into a canoe that was painted say&#8230;forest green, red or black? Is it a fear of something that is obviously handmade or a comfort in mass production? Both? The answer is that while most canoe users would like to have the look of a wood canoe, they don&#8217;t know what the difference is between a wood canoe and a composite canoe and thus assume the former is inferior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A wood canoe is typically constructed of many small wooden strips secured to a frame (called a strong-back) which is removed after a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/gds\/Wood-vs-Composite-Canoe-Purchase-Guide\/10000000006869846\/g.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>Commonly, when someone sees a wooden canoe the reaction is somewhat stunned at its beauty but quite unsure whether it would float or not. Why then would someone quickly step into a canoe that was painted say&#8230;forest green, red or black? Is it a fear of something that is obviously handmade or a comfort in [&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-77783","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\/77783","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=77783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77968,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77783\/revisions\/77968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}