{"id":58244,"date":"2011-12-28T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T20:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58244"},"modified":"2011-12-28T13:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T20:51:22","slug":"sailing-to-avoid-pirates-race-yachts-travel-on-armed-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58244","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; To avoid pirates, race yachts travel on armed ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To avoid pirates, five multimillion-dollar yachts involved in the Volvo Ocean Race were transported on an armed ship Wednesday through the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The decision to load and ship the boats \u00e2\u20ac\u201d because the area was deemed too dangerous to sail \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is unprecedented in the sport, organizers said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 15-ton yachts with 31-meter masts still in place were\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5g8V_z5uFLoA_YFXCGPN5QzgJZ57A?docId=5482db296e46421fbde8822ac8c72648\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a> <script src=\"http:\/\/maps.gstatic.com\/intl\/en_us\/mapfiles\/377a\/maps2.api\/main.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To avoid pirates, five multimillion-dollar yachts involved in the Volvo Ocean Race were transported on an armed ship Wednesday through the Indian Ocean. The decision to load and ship the boats \u00e2\u20ac\u201d because the area was deemed too dangerous to sail \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is unprecedented in the sport, organizers said. The 15-ton yachts with 31-meter masts [&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-58244","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\/58244","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=58244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58245,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58244\/revisions\/58245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}