{"id":14094,"date":"2016-09-27T19:41:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T23:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/this-guy-paddle-boarded-the-gowanus-canal-like-some-kind-of-brooklyn-prophet\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T19:41:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T23:41:37","slug":"this-guy-paddle-boarded-the-gowanus-canal-like-some-kind-of-brooklyn-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/this-guy-paddle-boarded-the-gowanus-canal-like-some-kind-of-brooklyn-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"This guy paddle boarded the Gowanus Canal like some kind of Brooklyn prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disgusting thing someone did \u2014 via @StandUpVirgin Well, that&#8217;s one way to avoid the G train.\u00a0Passersby in South Brooklyn spotted a\u00a0man paddle boarding on the Gowanus Canal this week. That&#8217;s right, as in standing on a flat\u00a0board with no shoes on in the notoriously disgusting Gowanus Canal, splashing water around with no protection against falling in. In case you&#8217;re unfamiliar, the canal has\u00a0all\u00a0the diseases,\u00a0no\u00a0dolphins (R.I.P. Dolph Fun-dgren) and, if you&#8217;ve ever walked around the\u00a0neighborhood after a rain, smells like sewage. But that didn&#8217;t stop\u00a0one brave\u00a0soul from Brooklyn by the name of Gary Francis from pursuing his dream of\u00a0splashing garbage water\u00a0all over himself for the sake of some political statement. &#8220;Paddling the Gowanus Canal is beautiful &amp; offers a great look at the underbelly of Brooklyn,&#8221; wrote Francis on his Instagram selfie, &#8220;as well as being prime protected water for training. I&#8217;ve seen ducks, geese, cormorants, big fish, little fish, crabs &amp; herons,&hellip; Read More<\/p>\n<p>This guy paddle boarded the Gowanus Canal like some kind of Brooklyn prophet : <a href=\"http:\/\/brokelyn.com\/paddle-boarding-on-the-gowanus\/\">Brokelyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disgusting thing someone did \u2014 via @StandUpVirgin Well, that&#8217;s one way to avoid the G trai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":14095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2729],"class_list":["post-14094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brokelyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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