{"id":17019,"date":"2009-07-21T07:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17019"},"modified":"2012-08-05T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:38:55","slug":"sailing-americas-cup-swiss-engine-revving-up-americas-cup-court-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17019","title":{"rendered":"Sailing America&#8217;s Cup &#8211; Swiss engine revving up America&#8217;s Cup court spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An engine on an America&#8217;s Cup boat?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s a real jaw-dropper to Russell Coutts, one of the most dominant skippers in America&#8217;s Cup history who now sails for U.S. challenger BMW Oracle Racing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s simply a no-brainer to his counterpart and former mate, Brad Butterworth, who leads two-time America&#8217;s Cup champion Alinghi of Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The engine in question isn&#8217;t to propel Alinghi&#8217;s 90-foot catamaran, which will face BMW Oracle Racing&#8217;s equally monstrous trimaran in a best-of-3 showdown between the bitter rivals next February for the oldest trophy in international sports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rather, it&#8217;s to provide &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hPuKC1liAAJ6ZtClHM10RjpXropwD99IGJM80\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An engine on an America&#8217;s Cup boat? It&#8217;s a real jaw-dropper to Russell Coutts, one of the most dominant skippers in America&#8217;s Cup history who now sails for U.S. challenger BMW Oracle Racing. It&#8217;s simply a no-brainer to his counterpart and former mate, Brad Butterworth, who leads two-time America&#8217;s Cup champion Alinghi of Switzerland. The [&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-17019","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\/17019","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=17019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67868,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019\/revisions\/67868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}