{"id":90499,"date":"2014-02-13T22:19:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T05:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90499"},"modified":"2014-02-13T22:19:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T05:19:52","slug":"sup-champion-karen-wrenn-talks-fear-paddling-and-surreal-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90499","title":{"rendered":"SUP champion Karen Wrenn talks fear, paddling, and surreal moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If Karen Wrenn isn\u2019t on the water, there\u2019s a good chance she\u2019s thinking about it\u2014the open water was as much a part of her upbringing as Saturday morning cartoons are for the rest of us. Born in Portland, Oregon, and shuttled to her family\u2019s cabin in Washington lake country during the summer, Wrenn quickly grew serious about windsurfing, a sport that took her all the way to Maui. It was there that she tried standup paddleboarding and never looked back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now 41 years old, with roots growing deep into the Oregon soil once more, Wrenn commands an impressive career filled with\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/lifestyle\/pro-active\/post\/standup-paddling-champion-karen-wrenn-talks-fear-paddling-and-surreal-moments\/\" 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>If Karen Wrenn isn\u2019t on the water, there\u2019s a good chance she\u2019s thinking about it\u2014the open water was as much a part of her upbringing as Saturday morning cartoons are for the rest of us. Born in Portland, Oregon, and shuttled to her family\u2019s cabin in Washington lake country during the summer, Wrenn quickly grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90499","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=90499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90500,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90499\/revisions\/90500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}