{"id":840,"date":"2014-03-27T15:34:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragonboatco.com\/?p=840"},"modified":"2014-04-02T15:43:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T21:43:53","slug":"840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonboatco.com\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"Luke Esbenson Steers in AZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phantom Dragons paddler Luke Esbenson, certified last year to steer in the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, got his first experience steering for teams in a major dragon boat event when he volunteered to help at the Arizona Dragon Boat Festival in Tempe, AZ on March 22-23, \u00a0Luke steered for 16 races over the course of the weekend (in addition to racing with his Phantom Dragons team), and did an outstanding job!<\/p>\n<p>Shown below is Luke, steering for the CRAA team (with several other Phantom Dragons helping fill out the crew, and Tom Ging drumming).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dragonboatco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AZ-2K14-LukeSteer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-837\" alt=\"AZ 2K14-LukeSteer\" src=\"https:\/\/dragonboatco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AZ-2K14-LukeSteer-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dragonboatco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AZ-2K14-LukeSteer-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dragonboatco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AZ-2K14-LukeSteer-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dragonboatco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AZ-2K14-LukeSteer-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dragonboatco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AZ-2K14-LukeSteer.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phantom Dragons paddler Luke Esbenson, certified last year to steer in the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, got his first experience steering for teams in a major dragon boat event when he volunteered to help at the Arizona Dragon Boat Festival &hellip; 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