{"id":80474,"date":"2013-06-15T08:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T15:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80474"},"modified":"2013-06-15T08:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T15:29:55","slug":"strutless-kites-strut-your-stuff-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80474","title":{"rendered":"Strutless Kites: Strut Your Stuff. Or Not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the beginning there were five. Then there were seven. Then three. Over the past ten years we\u2019ve flown kites featuring one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and even nine struts. This year, for the first time ever, we are seeing production kites with zero struts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While their designers all claim they are lighter, more compact when packed, and feature better low end performance than kites with struts, they each took different approaches to their creations. Just as existing strutted kites can\u2019t be put in a single performance category, strutless kites will each have their own unique personality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Strutless kites promise to be\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekiteboarder.com\/2013\/06\/strutless-kite\/\" 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>In the beginning there were five. Then there were seven. Then three. Over the past ten years we\u2019ve flown kites featuring one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and even nine struts. This year, for the first time ever, we are seeing production kites with zero struts. While their designers all claim they are lighter, [&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-80474","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\/80474","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=80474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80475,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80474\/revisions\/80475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}