{"id":65689,"date":"2012-06-18T19:03:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T02:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65689"},"modified":"2012-06-18T19:03:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T02:03:44","slug":"sailing-americas-cup-2013-african-diaspora-maritime-sues-golden-gate-yc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65689","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; America&#8217;s Cup 2013 &#8211; African Diaspora Maritime sues Golden Gate YC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">African Diaspora Maritime (ADM), a non-profit corporation created to motivate, inspire, and teach problem solving and cooperation by introducing early disciplines of maritime knowledge, is suing America&#8217;s Cup host, Golden Gate YC, for not letting them compete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8216;I just want to integrate a sport that really needs some integration,&#8217; Charles Kithcart said with more than a twinge of frustration in his voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kithcart is the founder of the North Carolina-based organization which is dedicated to getting more African Americans involved in yacht racing, a sport that tends to be cultural shorthand for &#8216;wealthy and white.&#8217; His dream is to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=2&amp;Nid=98657&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" 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>African Diaspora Maritime (ADM), a non-profit corporation created to motivate, inspire, and teach problem solving and cooperation by introducing early disciplines of maritime knowledge, is suing America&#8217;s Cup host, Golden Gate YC, for not letting them compete. &#8216;I just want to integrate a sport that really needs some integration,&#8217; Charles Kithcart said with more than [&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-65689","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\/65689","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=65689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65690,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65689\/revisions\/65690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}