{"id":1555,"date":"2009-02-15T00:04:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T20:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:22:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:22:52","slug":"cloud-of-litigation-hovers-over-a-sunny-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Cloud of Litigation Hovers Over a Sunny Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1556\" title=\"am-cup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/am-cup-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"am-cup\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Louis Vuitton Pacific Series showed over the past two weeks how good an offseason event in America&#8217;s Cup boats can be. Under the loom of volcanic Rangitoto Island, with the city skyline scraping the clouds, 10 teams of the world&#8217;s best sailors traded tacks, jibes, barbs and laughs in a friendly competition in towering Cup boats that got better as it rolled along.<\/p>\n<div id=\"body_after_content_column\">\n<p>Kiwi arch rivals and onetime bosom buddies Russell Coutts of the U.S. entry BMW Oracle and Brad Butterworth on Swiss Alinghi wound up facing each other in challenger finals &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/14\/AR2009021401751.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louis Vuitton Pacific Series showed over the past two weeks how good an offseason event in America&#8217;s Cup boats can be. Under the loom of volcanic Rangitoto Island, with the city skyline scraping the clouds, 10 teams of the world&#8217;s best sailors traded tacks, jibes, barbs and laughs in a friendly competition in towering [&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-1555","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\/1555","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=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}