{"id":840,"date":"2010-07-07T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T10:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=840"},"modified":"2010-07-07T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T11:00:06","slug":"kayak-motor-well-alright-a-wedding-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"Kayak motor (well, alright, a wedding too)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-842\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Erin1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-842\" title=\"Erin1\" src=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Erin1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Erin1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Erin1.jpg 977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin and Erin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s a kayak motor here now &#8211; it arrived at Malcolm&#8217;s while I was up north for my niece&#8217;s wedding.\u00a0 (Did I mention that? Erin and Justin have tied the knot and I offer this photo as evidence.\u00a0 And she was also cute as flower girl at Sue&#8217;s and my wedding 25 years ago, so it <!--more-->was delightful to be there to share the day. And it gave me a nice excuse for a motorbike ride up to Hervey Bay&#8230;\u00a0 but I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm has offered his kayak in the interest of science so we can test this little Torqeedo.\u00a0 And it will give us a platform to offer test drives of it &#8211; these motors are unusual enough that its really important to be able to have people try it out.\u00a0 And as it gets out and about around Pittwater people will get to know what it can do. Tomorrow we fit the bracket so I&#8217;ll put together some photos so you can see how its done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a kayak motor here now &#8211; it arrived at Malcolm&#8217;s while I was up north for my niece&#8217;s wedding.\u00a0 (Did I mention that? Erin and Justin have tied the knot and I offer this photo as evidence.\u00a0 And she was also cute as flower girl at Sue&#8217;s and my wedding 25 years ago, so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kayak motor (well, alright, a wedding too)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-propulsion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}