{"id":140242,"date":"2018-02-26T19:08:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=140242"},"modified":"2018-02-26T19:13:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T02:13:14","slug":"sailing-italian-crew-blows-tea-route-record-out-of-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=140242","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Italian crew blows tea route record out of the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, UK &#8211; It&#8217;s no surprise. We expected this. They&#8217;d been on target right out of the gate. And we were rooting for them.<\/p>\n<p>Still, <em>Maserati&#8217;s<\/em> finish in London just a few hours ago is impressive by any standard. Giovanni Soldini and crew have broken the &#8216;Tea Route&#8217; record from Hong Kong to the UK with a time of\u00a036 days, 2 hours, 37 minutes and 2 seconds. This shatters the previous mark \u2014 set 10 years ago by\u00a0<em>Gitana 13<\/em>, a 100-ft maxi catamaran \u2014 by\u00a05 days and 19 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are super happy,&#8221; Soldini was quoted as saying in a press release. &#8220;But also very tired\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latitude38.com\/lectronic\/lectronicday.lasso?date=2018-02-23#.WpS99HyIbDc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, UK &#8211; It&#8217;s no surprise. We expected this. They&#8217;d been on target right out of the gate. And we were rooting for them. Still, Maserati&#8217;s finish in London just a few hours ago is impressive by any standard. Giovanni Soldini and crew have broken the &#8216;Tea Route&#8217; record from Hong Kong to the UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140246,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140242\/revisions\/140246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}