{"id":31924,"date":"2010-05-13T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T03:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=31924"},"modified":"2010-05-13T20:55:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T03:55:27","slug":"sailing-despite-controversy-homecoming-is-a-magical-time-for-teen-sailor-jessica-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=31924","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Despite controversy, homecoming is a magical time for teen sailor Jessica Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s the eve of Jessica Watson&#8217;s return to civilization, after seven months spent sailing around the world, and the 16-year-old Australian brims with excitement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s like the day before Christmas except I don&#8217;t ever remember getting this excited about Christmas,&#8221; she posted on her blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An estimated 50,000 fans will cheer as the intrepid mariner docks at the Opera House and steps wobbly from a 34-foot pink sailboat on which she will have lived, with stuffed animals as her only companions, for 210 days\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/17519\/despite+controversy+homecoming+is+a+magical+time+for+teen+sailor+jessica+watson\/\" 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>It&#8217;s the eve of Jessica Watson&#8217;s return to civilization, after seven months spent sailing around the world, and the 16-year-old Australian brims with excitement. &#8220;It&#8217;s like the day before Christmas except I don&#8217;t ever remember getting this excited about Christmas,&#8221; she posted on her blog. An estimated 50,000 fans will cheer as the intrepid mariner [&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-31924","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\/31924","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=31924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31926,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924\/revisions\/31926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}