{"id":76443,"date":"2013-03-11T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T03:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=76443"},"modified":"2013-03-11T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T03:10:05","slug":"sailing-history-of-the-americas-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=76443","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; History of the America&#8217;s Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the past few years, the America&#8217;s Cup has been better known for legal battles than as a sporting event, but that wasn&#8217;t the first time in its history that it degenerated into a power game between very wealthy people. Since Larry Ellison&#8217;s Oracle team won the cup, the defender and the challengers are in general agreement about the boats and the way the races will be run, but that doesn&#8217;t mean there have been no battles. Ellison has ambitious plans to turn the America&#8217;s Cup into a year-round commercial sport, and this has led to tough negotiations with San Francisco for the venue and with the TV companies for coverage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The America&#8217;s Cup is the oldest active trophy in international sport. What makes it different\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/yachtpals.com\/americas-cup-9615\" 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>For the past few years, the America&#8217;s Cup has been better known for legal battles than as a sporting event, but that wasn&#8217;t the first time in its history that it degenerated into a power game between very wealthy people. Since Larry Ellison&#8217;s Oracle team won the cup, the defender and the challengers are in [&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-76443","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\/76443","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=76443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76446,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76443\/revisions\/76446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}