{"id":29276,"date":"2010-03-22T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29276"},"modified":"2010-03-22T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T04:05:22","slug":"marriage-proposal-and-pink-champagne-on-ice-%e2%80%93-atlantic-rowing-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29276","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Proposal and Pink Champagne on Ice \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Atlantic Rowing Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After the emotion of last weekend, and time spent enjoying the sun in Antigua while sharing that awe inspiring moment of landfall with two rowing teams, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a case of getting back to earth with a bump this week. Sadly, I had to fly home long before Rich and Tom, together with the beautiful Red Arrow, got close to the island, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to say I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t willing them on every stroke of those last incredibly tough few hundred miles. To say I was gutted to miss them doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even scratch the surface, but I know from bitter experience that the frustration felt by those waiting on land is only a fraction of that felt by the rowers when Neptune is up to his tricks\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/yachtpals.com\/ocean-rowing-9045\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3701073?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the emotion of last weekend, and time spent enjoying the sun in Antigua while sharing that awe inspiring moment of landfall with two rowing teams, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a case of getting back to earth with a bump this week. Sadly, I had to fly home long before Rich and Tom, together with the beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29276","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=29276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29318,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29276\/revisions\/29318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}