{"id":73409,"date":"2012-12-21T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T22:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73409"},"modified":"2012-12-21T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T22:57:22","slug":"sex-sailing-and-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73409","title":{"rendered":"Sex, Sailing and the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That well-known pervert Freud has a lot to answer for. I&#8217;m convinced that spotting erotic associations with everyday objects is a learned skill, not innate. Or maybe I was very na\u00c3\u00afve \u00e2\u20ac\u201c when I was 26 years old, a girlfriend burst into giggles when I tied two round balloons and a long one together as Christmas decorations at her parents&#8217; house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Whatever the truth may be, every day we&#8217;re bombarded with images for which we are expected to recognise and respond to sexual associations, and the boating industry has plenty of opportunity to play this game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">English speakers think of boats (and cars) as\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/yachtpals.com\/naked-sailing-9610\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and 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>That well-known pervert Freud has a lot to answer for. I&#8217;m convinced that spotting erotic associations with everyday objects is a learned skill, not innate. Or maybe I was very na\u00c3\u00afve \u00e2\u20ac\u201c when I was 26 years old, a girlfriend burst into giggles when I tied two round balloons and a long one together as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73409","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=73409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73411,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73409\/revisions\/73411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}