{"id":83967,"date":"2013-09-18T20:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T03:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83967"},"modified":"2013-09-18T20:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T03:28:06","slug":"americas-cup-sailing-dark-days-for-usa-as-etnz-reaches-match-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83967","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Cup Sailing &#8211; Dark days for USA as ETNZ reaches match point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s hard to be happy these days if you\u2019re a fan of Oracle Team USA. The squad is now down eight races to one to Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) in a best-of-nine contest that should have ended today. Ultimately, an unexpected puff that was two tenths of a knot over the wind limit hit the RC\u2019s anemometer literally seconds before the starting gun was due to fire, saving Oracle from a miserable start and a likely thumping from their Kiwi rivals.<\/p>\n<p>True, Oracle could theoretically bounce back, but having to win eight straight races while facing an equally matched competitor who is\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=2&amp;Nid=114668&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>It\u2019s hard to be happy these days if you\u2019re a fan of Oracle Team USA. The squad is now down eight races to one to Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) in a best-of-nine contest that should have ended today. Ultimately, an unexpected puff that was two tenths of a knot over the wind limit hit [&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-83967","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\/83967","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=83967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83968,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83967\/revisions\/83968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}