{"id":67065,"date":"2012-07-23T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T20:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67065"},"modified":"2012-07-23T13:53:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T20:53:52","slug":"americas-cup-sailing-ac-72-across-a-mans-life-span-technology-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67065","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Cup Sailing &#8211; AC 72: Across a man&#8217;s life span : Technology and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Great excitement and awe at the sight of the first AC72 at Auckland&#8217;s Viaduct Harbour on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A keen crowd gathered in an even keener chill wind to see `New Zealand` the first AC72 officially launched.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I had only public access, but was well positioned early, with a back up location scouted. An excited and informed crowd filled in behind me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The huge cat sat weather cocked with its 40 metre wing mast\/sail feathering in the unusually cold north easterly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sound of its tell tails slapping against the taught fabric of its power plant, crisp to the ear\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/index.cfm?Nid=100056&amp;refre=y&amp;ntid=0&amp;rid=4\" 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>Great excitement and awe at the sight of the first AC72 at Auckland&#8217;s Viaduct Harbour on Saturday evening. A keen crowd gathered in an even keener chill wind to see `New Zealand` the first AC72 officially launched. I had only public access, but was well positioned early, with a back up location scouted. An excited [&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-67065","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\/67065","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=67065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67066,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67065\/revisions\/67066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}