{"id":91163,"date":"2014-02-28T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91163"},"modified":"2014-02-28T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:24:16","slug":"4000-mile-sea-kayak-trip-from-brazil-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91163","title":{"rendered":"4,000-mile sea kayak Trip from Brazil to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When kayaking is in your blood, sometimes you just can\u2019t help but go big\u2014at least, that\u2019s the case for Canadian brothers Russell and Graham Henry, who just wrapped up a 4,000-mile expedition paddling from South America across the Caribbean and to Florida on sea kayaks, making them the first to paddle across the Caribbean since 1979, when John Dowd made the journey. The trip was the brainchild of Russell, 21, who came up with the idea for a university project and was quickly encouraged by his father, Current Designs kayaks founder Brian Henry, and joined by Graham, 22.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe just didn\u2019t really think twice about\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/outdoor\/excursions\/post\/russell-and-graham-henry-complete-4000-mile-sea-kayak-from-brazil-to-florida\/\" 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>When kayaking is in your blood, sometimes you just can\u2019t help but go big\u2014at least, that\u2019s the case for Canadian brothers Russell and Graham Henry, who just wrapped up a 4,000-mile expedition paddling from South America across the Caribbean and to Florida on sea kayaks, making them the first to paddle across the Caribbean since [&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-91163","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\/91163","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=91163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91164,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91163\/revisions\/91164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}