{"id":83715,"date":"2013-09-12T21:13:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T04:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83715"},"modified":"2013-09-12T21:13:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T04:13:40","slug":"navy-veteran-becomes-first-blind-kayaker-to-paddle-length-of-grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83715","title":{"rendered":"Navy veteran becomes first blind kayaker to paddle length of Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lonnie Bedwell was new to kayaking and had a mere 15 days on whitewater before embarking on a 226-mile journey down the Colorado River that had never been done before.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was to paddle the entire length of the Grand Canyon in a solo kayak, which under normal circumstances would be a challenging quest. Normal meaning, for people who can see.<\/p>\n<p>But Bedwell is blind\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/outdoor\/excursions\/post\/veteran-becomes-first-blind-kayaker-to-paddle-grand-canyon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonnie Bedwell was new to kayaking and had a mere 15 days on whitewater before embarking on a 226-mile journey down the Colorado River that had never been done before. The plan was to paddle the entire length of the Grand Canyon in a solo kayak, which under normal circumstances would be a challenging quest. [&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-83715","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\/83715","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=83715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83716,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83715\/revisions\/83716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}