{"id":17247,"date":"2016-03-08T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/quebec-musher-wins-seventh-can-am-crown-sled-dog-race\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:02:37","slug":"quebec-musher-wins-seventh-can-am-crown-sled-dog-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/quebec-musher-wins-seventh-can-am-crown-sled-dog-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec musher wins seventh Can-Am Crown sled dog race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT KENT, Maine \u2014 Martin Massicotte of Quebec has won his seventh Can-Am Crown, the biggest sled dog race in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Massicotte and his dogs arrived in Fort Kent at 5:45 a.m. at the end of the nearly 250-mile race across the wilderness of northern Maine. Massicotte finished the race in just under 29 hours.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen teams are participating in the Can-Am Crown. It serves as a qualifier for the Iditarod across Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Denis Tremblay, also of Quebec, finished second at 29 hours, 49 minutes. Matthew Schmidt of Minnesota finished third at 30:27. The top Mainer was Ashley Patterson of Shirley Mills, who finished fifth at 32:37.<\/p>\n<p>The race began Saturday in downtown in Fort Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT KENT, Maine \u2014 Martin Massicotte of Quebec has won his seventh Can-Am Crown, the biggest sled dog race in Maine. Massicotte and his dogs arrived in Fort Kent at 5:45 a.m. at the end of the nearly 250-mile race across the wilderness of northern Maine. Massicotte finished the race in just under 29 hours. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}