{"id":20509,"date":"2009-09-16T11:09:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T18:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20509"},"modified":"2009-09-16T12:26:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:26:53","slug":"sailing-sail-plane-to-attempt-world-speed-record-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20509","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; &#8216;Sail-plane&#8217; to attempt world speed record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Forty seven-year-old Australian &#8220;adrenaline junkie&#8221; Sean Langman will attempt to break the 50-knot sailing speed barrier with his half sailboat, half plane, after a serious crash last summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Langman, a shipyard owner and yachtsman, is intent on beating the French-set record within the next few weeks, with the &#8220;Wot Rocket,&#8221; a canoe-style pod with a nine meter-long rigid sail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Wot Rocket is waiting for confirmation from the World Sailing Speed Record Council to attempt, once again, an unprecedented technology known as &#8220;supercavitation&#8221;&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/SPORT\/08\/07\/sailing.speed.attempt\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty seven-year-old Australian &#8220;adrenaline junkie&#8221; Sean Langman will attempt to break the 50-knot sailing speed barrier with his half sailboat, half plane, after a serious crash last summer. Langman, a shipyard owner and yachtsman, is intent on beating the French-set record within the next few weeks, with the &#8220;Wot Rocket,&#8221; a canoe-style pod with a [&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-20509","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\/20509","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=20509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20542,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions\/20542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}