{"id":5690,"date":"2009-03-24T07:06:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T14:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2009-03-26T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T23:15:54","slug":"sailing-legally-blind-north-fort-myers-man-to-sail-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5690","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Legally blind North Fort Myers man to sail around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kris Scheppe put almost two years of his life on hold for one trial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"aa\">In May 2007, Scheppe was mugged by a teenager on his way to a convention for the Florida Federation of the Blind in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>On March 11, he got justice &#8211; and the freedom to pursue a dream: to be the first blind person to sail nonstop around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 29-year-old North Fort Myers resident was born with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye disease&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news-press.com\/article\/20090323\/NEWS0111\/903230342\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3691695?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris Scheppe put almost two years of his life on hold for one trial. In May 2007, Scheppe was mugged by a teenager on his way to a convention for the Florida Federation of the Blind in St. Petersburg. On March 11, he got justice &#8211; and the freedom to pursue a dream: to be [&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-5690","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\/5690","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=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}