{"id":625,"date":"2009-03-24T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/24\/the-longest-2-95-seconds-ever\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T02:47:00","slug":"the-longest-2-95-seconds-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/24\/the-longest-2-95-seconds-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longest 2.95 Seconds &#8211; Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of paddlers around here, I&#8217;m itching to get out on the water. But most of my favorite spots are still solid chunks of ice.<\/p>\n<p>So, instead of taking a hair dryer and a long extension cord out to some beautiful Adirondack pond, I checked out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1164101\/Pictured-The-moment-record-breaking-kayaker-plunged-127-FEET-waterfall--survived.html\">article and unbelievable video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a story on Pedro Olivia and his record-breaking descent &#8211; by kayak &#8211; over the Salto Belo falls in Brazil. He paddled over the edge of a 127-foot waterfall. His fall lasted what has to be the longest 2.95 seconds in the history of mankind. His paddle snapped like a twig. But he didn&#8217;t have a scratch on him afterward.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a strange cut in the video &#8211; it&#8217;s obviously edited\/not in real time. But, for all you paddlers out there just waiting to get an oar in the water, this will (temporarily) quench your thirst.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need to say that this is definitely from the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Try This At Home&#8221; file. Actually, don&#8217;t try this anywhere. But check out the video. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of paddlers around here, I&#8217;m itching to get out on the water. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}