{"id":30650,"date":"2010-04-15T21:04:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30650"},"modified":"2010-04-15T21:06:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T04:06:43","slug":"global-sailor-jessica-watson-16-facing-stormy-seas-on-homestretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30650","title":{"rendered":"Global sailor Jessica Watson, 16, facing stormy seas on homestretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30651\" title=\"jessica\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/04\/jessica.bmp\" alt=\"jessica\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Conditions have turned nasty for Australia&#8217;s Jessica Watson as she gets closer to completing an around-the-world sailing odyssey that began last October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Watson, 16, who is trying to become the youngest person to solo-circumnavigate the planet in a sailboat, is inside home waters aboard her 34-foot pink sloop, but has spent the past several days enduring 50-knot winds and dodging electrical storms, while attempting to pass beneath Australia toward Tasmania.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She is expected to complete her nonstop, unassisted journey in early May\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/17015\/global+sailor+jessica+watson+16+facing+stormy+seas+on+homestretch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;offerid=171598.10000008&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><IMG alt=\"Logo_468x60\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nautica.com\/graphics\/promo\/NAU\/naut_logo_468x60.jpg\"><\/a><IMG border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;bids=171598.10000008&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Conditions have turned nasty for Australia&#8217;s Jessica Watson as she gets closer to completing an around-the-world sailing odyssey that began last October. Watson, 16, who is trying to become the youngest person to solo-circumnavigate the planet in a sailboat, is inside home waters aboard her 34-foot pink sloop, but has spent the past [&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-30650","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\/30650","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=30650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30654,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30650\/revisions\/30654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}