{"id":2837,"date":"2009-03-07T17:54:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T01:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2009-03-07T17:54:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T01:54:42","slug":"sailing-new-sailing-speed-record-but-the-boat-keeps-trying-to-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2837","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; New sailing speed record&#8230; but the boat keeps trying to take off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2838\" title=\"sail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/sail.jpg\" alt=\"sail\" width=\"385\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sail.jpg 385w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sail-150x72.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A British team is on course to break one of the last great speed records. Piloting a yacht that looks like a futuristic windsurf on steroids, the team hopes to achieve the world sailing speed record in the next few weeks, with an average speed higher than 50.57 knots (the existing record).<\/p>\n<p>That is the equivalent of nearly 60mph &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/men\/article5858598.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British team is on course to break one of the last great speed records. Piloting a yacht that looks like a futuristic windsurf on steroids, the team hopes to achieve the world sailing speed record in the next few weeks, with an average speed higher than 50.57 knots (the existing record). That is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,32,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-sailing","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","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=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}