{"id":245,"date":"2009-02-03T02:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T22:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2009-08-19T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T20:57:16","slug":"international-sports-sailing-125000-see-desjoyeaux-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"International sports, sailing: 125,000 see Desjoyeaux win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-246\" title=\"michel-desjoyeaux-sailor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/michel-desjoyeaux-sailor-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"michel-desjoyeaux-sailor\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A crowd estimated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vendeeglobe.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\">Vendee Globe<\/span><\/a> organizers at 125,000 people sailed or milled around waiting for winner Michel Desjoyeaux to sail in, with his 60-foot monohull, under sunny skies Sunday afternoon. The excitement turned to dismay for many Monday morning when second-place Roland Jourdain decided to end his race in the Azores after 84 days, trying to sail with a broken keel under very rough conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Desjoyeaux came in at a bright 20 knots, completing the round-the-world solo race in&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/genevalunch.com\/2009\/02\/02\/international-sports-sailing-125000-see-desjoyeaux-win\/\" target=\"_blank\">More\u00c2\u00a0info&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 A crowd estimated by Vendee Globe organizers at 125,000 people sailed or milled around waiting for winner Michel Desjoyeaux to sail in, with his 60-foot monohull, under sunny skies Sunday afternoon. The excitement turned to dismay for many Monday morning when second-place Roland Jourdain decided to end his race in the Azores [&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-245","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\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19002,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/19002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}