{"id":16042,"date":"2009-07-08T14:44:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16042"},"modified":"2012-08-05T20:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:27:58","slug":"sailing-though-blind-waltham-man-keeps-an-even-keel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16042","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Though blind, Waltham man keeps an even keel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dreary, rainy and overcast, it wasn&#8217;t an optimal day for sailing on Boston Harbor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However, Waltham resident Ryck Lent sounded the part of a lifelong sailor when he recalled an old seafarer&#8217;s saying, &#8220;A bad day on the water is better than a good day behind the desk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lent took part in the Carroll Cup Challenge blind sailing race, in which three teams of blind sailors from the Carroll Center for the Blind&#8217;s SailBlind program raced from Courageous Sailing Center in Charlestown across the harbor to the finish at the Boston Harbor Hotel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The teams were &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynewstribune.com\/news\/x727289259\/Though-blind-Waltham-man-keeps-an-even-keel\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreary, rainy and overcast, it wasn&#8217;t an optimal day for sailing on Boston Harbor. However, Waltham resident Ryck Lent sounded the part of a lifelong sailor when he recalled an old seafarer&#8217;s saying, &#8220;A bad day on the water is better than a good day behind the desk.&#8221; Lent took part in the Carroll Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16042","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\/16042","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=16042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68068,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042\/revisions\/68068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}