{"id":93222,"date":"2014-04-21T15:10:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T22:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93222"},"modified":"2014-04-21T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T22:10:55","slug":"ditch-the-scuba-gear-and-take-the-plunge-into-freediving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93222","title":{"rendered":"Ditch the scuba gear and take the plunge into freediving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>World-record holder Mandy Krack shares the secrets to going deeper<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you want to see a mermaid, go to Korea. Only don\u2019t expect to see any shell bras on these ladies; the \u201cmermaids\u201d living on Jeju Island off the coast of Korea are actually haenyeo, female freedivers who swim down to 60 feet on one breath to collect clams, shellfish, and seaweed from the bottom of the ocean. And if you think that\u2019s impressive, just wait until you meet Mandy-Rae Krack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Krack (formerly Cruickshank) is one of the most accomplished and daring freedivers in the world\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/outdoor\/nature\/post\/ditch-the-scuba-gear-and-take-the-plunge-into-freediving\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-record holder Mandy Krack shares the secrets to going deeper If you want to see a mermaid, go to Korea. Only don\u2019t expect to see any shell bras on these ladies; the \u201cmermaids\u201d living on Jeju Island off the coast of Korea are actually haenyeo, female freedivers who swim down to 60 feet on one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scuba-diving-snorkeling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93222","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=93222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93223,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93222\/revisions\/93223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}