{"id":52897,"date":"2011-08-06T07:15:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T14:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52897"},"modified":"2011-08-06T07:15:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T14:15:04","slug":"sailing-new-generation-of-americas-cup-yachts-set-sail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52897","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; New generation of America&#8217;s Cup yachts set sail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The latest generation of America&#8217;s Cup yachts is ready to set sail in a competition promising speed, stealth and uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first of three World Series events in 2011 begins Saturday off the Portuguese coast in Cascais. A new class of catamarans will streak though the Atlantic at speeds of up to 30 mph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The World Series is essentially a training exercise for the Louis Vuitton Cup, where boats will try to become the designated challenger to defending champion Oracle Racing in the America&#8217;s Cup, the oldest competition in international sports. Both cups will be raced in 2013 from July to September in San Francisco\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jj_LhEP0qEpUbLePXD-QNyidiheQ?docId=2b06c95dccb0449f9fead660cbaf9e31\" target=\"_blank\">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 latest generation of America&#8217;s Cup yachts is ready to set sail in a competition promising speed, stealth and uncertainty. The first of three World Series events in 2011 begins Saturday off the Portuguese coast in Cascais. A new class of catamarans will streak though the Atlantic at speeds of up to 30 mph. The [&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-52897","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\/52897","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=52897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52898,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52897\/revisions\/52898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}