{"id":82924,"date":"2013-08-29T06:34:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=82924"},"modified":"2013-08-29T06:34:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:34:16","slug":"kiteboarding-off-the-radar-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=82924","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboarding &#8211; Off the Radar in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The ability to explore the unknown is one of the aspects of kiteboarding that has always intrigued me. Diving into a new spot, new environment, new culture, or new language often leaves me with an inexplicably special feeling. That is why my head cocked at a slight tilt when Ecuador was mentioned as a possible location for a photo shoot and demo tour. I had met the Ecuadorian distributor for Slingshot last year in Oregon and he had expressed an interest in having me visit for a demo, but Ecuador wasn\u2019t a country I had heard much of anything about and I had absolutely zero knowledge of its kiting potential\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekiteboarder.com\/2013\/08\/radar-ecuador\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Pictures and 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>The ability to explore the unknown is one of the aspects of kiteboarding that has always intrigued me. Diving into a new spot, new environment, new culture, or new language often leaves me with an inexplicably special feeling. That is why my head cocked at a slight tilt when Ecuador was mentioned as a possible [&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-82924","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\/82924","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=82924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82925,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82924\/revisions\/82925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}