{"id":42692,"date":"2011-01-08T19:09:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T02:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=42692"},"modified":"2011-01-08T19:09:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T02:09:51","slug":"ocean-rowing-round-up-boats-crossing-for-records-and-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=42692","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Rowing Round Up &#8211; Boats Crossing for Records and Rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The season of madness is upon us again! As if Christmas and New Year weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve reached that special time of year when sailors sprint around the planet as fast as they can, while rowers make their way in a far more sedate fashion across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although there isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a rowing race from the Canaries to the Caribbean this year, there are a number of independent boats making a crossing, and a host of contenders for ocean rowing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Blue Riband trophy, presented for the fastest overall crossing. This record is currently held by La Mondiale with a time of 33 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great anticipation that someone might break the 30-day barrier for the first time\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yachtpals.com\/ocean-rowing-9191\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures &amp; More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season of madness is upon us again! As if Christmas and New Year weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve reached that special time of year when sailors sprint around the planet as fast as they can, while rowers make their way in a far more sedate fashion across the Atlantic. Although there isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a rowing race from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42692","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\/42692","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=42692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42693,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42692\/revisions\/42693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}