{"id":90831,"date":"2015-06-02T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T08:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=90831"},"modified":"2015-06-02T10:37:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T08:37:40","slug":"father-and-son-take-on-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/06\/02\/father-and-son-take-on-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and son take on the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The river race season is now in full swing with the easier and shorter novice races over with.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Lake Canoe Club\u2019s (VLC) paddlers competed in Florida Lake Canoe Club\u2019s river race, held on the Klip River, on May 24.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The 22km event had more than 100 paddlers enjoy the mild autumn early morning chill.<\/p>\n<p>VLC\u2019s father-and-son affair, Michael and Keagan Rae, are enjoying the river race adventures and successfully tackled the challenging rapids to finish their race in a time of two hours and two minutes.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The local pair is looking forward to challenges and obstacles as they grow in confidence and skills.<\/p>\n<p>Most paddlers are gaining experience on river races and earning points towards an A Grade status which will enable them to compete in their first A Grade river race, the Fish River Canoe Marathon, in October.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89687\/great-paddling-action\/\">Great paddling action.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88949\/great-test-for-novice-paddlers\/\">Novices test their river skills.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='35c512de2841e4f9c4993715d1530c79'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novice river races a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":90836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[7545,5028,1738,1296,3099,2120,7544,1106,979,969,6247,6603,6040,6604,2749,7543,1119,1724,1675,2822],"class_list":["post-90831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-a-grade-fish-river-canoe-marathon","tag-a-grade-fish-river-race","tag-canoe","tag-canoeing","tag-canoeist","tag-canoeists","tag-fish-river-canoe-marathon","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-local-sport-news","tag-local-sport-stories","tag-local-sports-news","tag-local-sports-stories","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-river-races","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-victoria-lake-canoe-club","tag-vlc"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["A Grade Fish River Canoe Marathon","A Grade Fish River Race","canoe","canoeing","canoeist","canoeists","Fish River Canoe Marathon","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","local sport news","Local sport stories","Local Sports News","Local sports stories","Puleng Sekabate","River Races","sport","sports","Victoria Lake Canoe Club","VLC"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}