{"id":82822,"date":"2013-08-26T20:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T03:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=82822"},"modified":"2013-08-26T20:02:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T03:02:52","slug":"kayak-trust-your-gut-rafa-ortiz-stares-over-the-edge-of-niagara-and-walks-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=82822","title":{"rendered":"Kayak &#8211; &#8220;Trust Your Gut&#8221; &#8211; Rafa Ortiz stares over the edge of Niagara, and walks away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the last three years, waterfall huckster Rafa Ortiz has been sizing up the grand-daddy of them all, Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday, with all the pieces in place for the historic first descent, he walked away from the 167-foot behemoth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI walked to the drop like I\u2019ve done with many waterfalls in the past, looking for that last positive feeling,\u201d the Mexican phenom said in a Facebook post. \u201cIt was not there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ortiz, who ran 189-foot Palouse Falls last year\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoekayak.com\/whitewater-kayak\/trust-your-gut\/\" 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>For the last three years, waterfall huckster Rafa Ortiz has been sizing up the grand-daddy of them all, Niagara Falls. Yesterday, with all the pieces in place for the historic first descent, he walked away from the 167-foot behemoth. \u201cI walked to the drop like I\u2019ve done with many waterfalls in the past, looking for [&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-82822","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\/82822","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=82822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82823,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82822\/revisions\/82823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}