{"id":40246,"date":"2010-11-13T13:20:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T20:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40246"},"modified":"2010-11-13T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T20:20:53","slug":"sailing-americas-cup-not-elitist-bay-welcomes-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40246","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; America&#8217;s Cup not elitist: Bay welcomes all"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;\">\n<p>As the San Francisco Board of Supervisors prepares to deliberate on the city&#8217;s bid to host the America&#8217;s Cup, there are a couple of important matters that need a little perspective. Namely, elitism and bowling shoes.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent committee hearing, Supervisor Eric Mar said he knew the cost to put on bowling shoes and rent lanes, but not how a working-class or low-income family from the Mission or Tenderloin could sail. &#8220;How can they participate and benefit?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer, Mr. Mar\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/11\/12\/DDQI1GASCS.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the San Francisco Board of Supervisors prepares to deliberate on the city&#8217;s bid to host the America&#8217;s Cup, there are a couple of important matters that need a little perspective. Namely, elitism and bowling shoes. During a recent committee hearing, Supervisor Eric Mar said he knew the cost to put on bowling shoes and [&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-40246","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\/40246","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=40246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40247,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40246\/revisions\/40247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}