{"id":84300,"date":"2013-09-25T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=84300"},"modified":"2013-09-25T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:32:10","slug":"sailing-not-your-grandfathers-americas-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=84300","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Not your grandfather\u2019s America\u2019s Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_9_1_14_1380115810921_248\" style=\"text-align: left;\">When did sailors start wearing helmets?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you haven&#8217;t been watching the America&#8217;s Cup \u2013 and odds are you haven&#8217;t \u2013 then you&#8217;ve missed the transformation of a stodgy old race into an X Game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_9_1_14_1380115810921_249\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Yes, the America&#8217;s Cup \u2013 to be decided on Wednesday in a final, winner-take all race between the United States and New Zealand \u2013 has become an extreme sport, complete with breakneck speeds (on water anyway), whip-fast turns and danger, so much so that one sailor has already died\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/the-turnstile\/not-grandfather-america-cup-225431505.html\" 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>When did sailors start wearing helmets? If you haven&#8217;t been watching the America&#8217;s Cup \u2013 and odds are you haven&#8217;t \u2013 then you&#8217;ve missed the transformation of a stodgy old race into an X Game. Yes, the America&#8217;s Cup \u2013 to be decided on Wednesday in a final, winner-take all race between the United States [&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-84300","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\/84300","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=84300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84301,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84300\/revisions\/84301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}