{"id":92073,"date":"2014-03-22T07:26:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92073"},"modified":"2014-03-22T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T14:26:29","slug":"wakeboard-raimi-merritt-claims-world-cup-victory-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92073","title":{"rendered":"Wakeboard &#8211; Raimi Merritt Claims World Cup Victory in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ORLANDO, FL [March 18, 2014]\u2014Casting a recent surgery on a broken ankle aside, Raimi Merritt, the most winningest World Cup Champion in women\u2019s wakeboarding and a native Floridian, dominated the water at the IWWF Waterski and Wakeboard World Cup in Mandruah, Australia, last weekend to claim her ninth World Cup victory.\u00a0 The event ran March 15-16, 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Merritt, 20, was sidelined for much of the 2013 pro wakeboarding season with a broken ankle that refused to heal.\u00a0 By late summer, she was fed up.\u00a0 She had the cast cut off her ankle, improvised a splint out of duct-tape\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancewake.com\/wake\/raimi-merritt-claims-ninth-iwwf-wakeboard-world-cup-victory-in-australia\/\" 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>ORLANDO, FL [March 18, 2014]\u2014Casting a recent surgery on a broken ankle aside, Raimi Merritt, the most winningest World Cup Champion in women\u2019s wakeboarding and a native Floridian, dominated the water at the IWWF Waterski and Wakeboard World Cup in Mandruah, Australia, last weekend to claim her ninth World Cup victory.\u00a0 The event ran March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-wakeboard-tubing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92073","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=92073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92074,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92073\/revisions\/92074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}