{"id":35941,"date":"2010-08-23T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35941"},"modified":"2010-08-23T21:25:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T04:25:47","slug":"14-year-old-girl-sailing-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35941","title":{"rendered":"14 Year Old Girl Sailing Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gibraltar &#8211; With the stealth that perhaps only a teenage girl (or maybe international spy) can manage, 14 year old Dutch sailor Laura Dekker snuck away from dock this weekend, setting off on her attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone.\u00c2\u00a0 As you may know, Laura has been battling for some time to attain the permission to take off on her voyage.\u00c2\u00a0 The bullheaded young teen even went so far as to run away from home at one point, terrifying her parents who finally found her in St Maarten, shopping for a yacht!\u00c2\u00a0 You would think that being labeled a teenage runaway would have ended her hopes of being found responsible enough to sail around the world alone, but Laura came home to convince her mother, and then the Dutch courts and social services, that she was a person capable of handling her boat by herself all the way around the globe.\u00c2\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t, however, convince the Portuguese police\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/yachtpals.com\/laura-dekker-9135\" 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>Gibraltar &#8211; With the stealth that perhaps only a teenage girl (or maybe international spy) can manage, 14 year old Dutch sailor Laura Dekker snuck away from dock this weekend, setting off on her attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone.\u00c2\u00a0 As you may know, Laura has been battling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35941","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\/35941","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=35941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35943,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941\/revisions\/35943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}