{"id":87259,"date":"2013-11-24T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T18:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=87259"},"modified":"2013-11-24T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T18:55:37","slug":"kiteboard-course-race-world-championship-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=87259","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboard Course Race World Championship &#8211; Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2013 IKA Kiteboard Course Race World Championship, being organized and locally managed by Kite Tour Asia (KTA) and the resort development of King Bay, is being held in Hainan, China, from 18 to 24 November. The lighter, shifting winds that graced day four of the championships threw a spanner in the works of the reigning title holders\u2019 virtually unchallenged bid for back-to-back victories, while favouring riders whose style more suited the conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Reigning champion Johnny Heineken (USA) \u2013 who had looked odds on favourite to retain his title after dominating the first three days of the International Kiteboard Association\u2019s (IKA) course racing worlds \u2013 failed to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/index.cfm?Nid=117008&amp;refre=y&amp;ntid=0&amp;rid=4\" 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>2013 IKA Kiteboard Course Race World Championship, being organized and locally managed by Kite Tour Asia (KTA) and the resort development of King Bay, is being held in Hainan, China, from 18 to 24 November. The lighter, shifting winds that graced day four of the championships threw a spanner in the works of the reigning [&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-87259","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\/87259","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=87259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87260,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87259\/revisions\/87260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}