{"id":7111,"date":"2009-04-02T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T17:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7111"},"modified":"2009-04-02T12:07:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:07:41","slug":"sailing-water-and-land-speed-records-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7111","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Water and land speed records fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two Australian sailors have just broken the speed barrier of 50 knots in their sailing boat Macquarie Innovation, whilst a British engineer has become the fastest human on earth powered by the wind alone, in a land sailing boat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On the morning of 26 March on the &#8216;dry&#8217; Lake Ivanpah in California, USA, The Greenbird, driven by British engineer Richard Jenkins, smashed the world land speed record for wind powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Greenbird clocked 126.1 mph (202.9 km\/h) , eclipsing the old, American held, record of 116 mph, set by Bob Schumacher in the Iron Duck in March 1999 at the same location&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowes.co.uk\/zonexml\/story?story_id=6273;cp=0-163-29\" target=\"_blank\">Details and Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701026?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Australian sailors have just broken the speed barrier of 50 knots in their sailing boat Macquarie Innovation, whilst a British engineer has become the fastest human on earth powered by the wind alone, in a land sailing boat. On the morning of 26 March on the &#8216;dry&#8217; Lake Ivanpah in California, USA, The Greenbird, [&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-7111","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\/7111","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=7111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7126,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}