{"id":111,"date":"2009-01-01T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-01-01T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T19:16:00","slug":"more-college-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"More College Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SV0W0_lKh8I\/AAAAAAAABEs\/vYFMSjNsc6k\/s1600-h\/uri+sailing:kennedy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 259px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SV0W0_lKh8I\/AAAAAAAABEs\/vYFMSjNsc6k\/s320\/uri+sailing:kennedy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286406637279152066\" \/><\/a>    College Sailing was so much fun. I had the good fortune to have great teammates; Skip Whyte, Henry Bossett. Mike Fenton, Johnny Hayes,Clay Evans,Chris Wells, Turtle, Norm Windus, and of course our coach Ned Caswell.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>We sailed at the Naval Academy several times a year, unsally late fall, and early spring. Annapolis is far enough south that it made a tremendous difference in the weather.  They also had fabulous facilities and could host large regattas.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span> Baltimore was not far away, and Saturday nights would often find us there. Baltimore in the sixties was rough. It had the &#8220;Block&#8221;; Boston had the &#8220;Combat Zone&#8221;. I doubt that many people could tell you where these places were, as not a trace exists any longer of their existence. Blaze Starr was famous and she had her Joint in the Block. The Photograph is proof that we were indeed there. <\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blaze_Starr<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SV0W0PG_v-I\/AAAAAAAABEk\/FP9C4q8e4G0\/s1600-h\/blaze+starr.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SV0W0PG_v-I\/AAAAAAAABEk\/FP9C4q8e4G0\/s320\/blaze+starr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286406624267714530\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Sailing was so much fun. I had the good fortune to have great teammates; Skip Whyte, Henry Bossett. Mike Fenton, Johnny Hayes,Clay Evans,Chris Wells, Turtle, Norm Windus, and of course our coach Ned Caswell. We sailed at the Naval Academy several times a year, unsally late fall, and early spring. Annapolis is far enough &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More College Years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,184,186,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intercolleigate-sailing","category-kennedy-cup","category-mcmillan-cup","category-naval-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}