{"id":2650,"date":"2012-10-15T11:26:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:30:26","slug":"derek-hutchinson-1930-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Derek Hutchinson 1930-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Hutchinson, considered by most as the &#8220;Father Of Modern Seakayaking&#8221;, has passed away. He was an author, instructor, designer of kayaks and paddles, and the first man to paddle a single kayak the 100 miles across the North Sea. \u00a0Derek provided guidance and advice for the formation of North Atlantic Canoe &amp; Kayak, and was listed as an Honorary \u00a0Member.\u00a0A brief piece in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seakayakermag.com\/blog\/?p=932\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Sea Kayaker Magazine<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0pays tribute to his contribution to sea kayaking. \u00a0His books and an excellent video featuring Derek done by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useakayak.org\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><strong>University of Sea Kayaking<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0are available from the NACK library. He will be greatly missed by all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Hutchinson, considered by most as the &#8220;Father Of Modern Seakayaking&#8221;, has passed away. He was an author, instructor, designer of kayaks and paddles, and the first man to paddle a single kayak the 100 miles across the North Sea. \u00a0Derek provided guidance and advice for the formation of North Atlantic Canoe &amp; Kayak, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}