{"id":56533,"date":"2011-11-14T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=56533"},"modified":"2011-11-14T07:59:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T14:59:45","slug":"sailing-americas-cup-sixth-man-is-as-close-as-one-can-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=56533","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; America&#8217;s Cup sixth man is as close as one can get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sixth man in the America&#8217;s Cup World Series will never shoot a three-pointer, make a critical steal or holler support from the stands like a collegiate Sixth Man club. This sixth man ideally stays on the bench and watches silently, like a gagged spectator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For almost 20 years now, America&#8217;s Cup races have invited a guest rider to hunker down in the stern of each boat, letting non-competitors experience elite sailing from a seat unlike any other in sports. The invitation list typically includes\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/11\/13\/SPGC1LUKOU.DTL\" 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 sixth man in the America&#8217;s Cup World Series will never shoot a three-pointer, make a critical steal or holler support from the stands like a collegiate Sixth Man club. This sixth man ideally stays on the bench and watches silently, like a gagged spectator. For almost 20 years now, America&#8217;s Cup races have invited [&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-56533","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\/56533","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=56533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56535,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56533\/revisions\/56535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}