{"id":20,"date":"2008-08-10T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:46:09","slug":"western-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Western Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKRD0QseaVI\/AAAAAAAAANg\/8EGWndmTktM\/s1600-h\/wsl+belevedere.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKRD0QseaVI\/AAAAAAAAANg\/8EGWndmTktM\/s320\/wsl+belevedere.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234383232025127250\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJ8_T_Wp9KI\/AAAAAAAAAFY\/VAdGGRIBWIk\/s1600-h\/belevedere:beaufort+sea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJ8_T_Wp9KI\/AAAAAAAAAFY\/VAdGGRIBWIk\/s320\/belevedere:beaufort+sea.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232970904684328098\" \/><\/a>July 1984 I was invited to go to the Beaufort Sea, the western arctic by boat, a 65 foot motorsailer belonging to John Bockstoce,&#8221; Mr. Arctic.&#8221; A completely  new adventure for me, non racing. Such an interesting group, I read everything I could before I joined the boat. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I have included photos of ice and whales as it is what one thinks of when speaking of the arctic, I found it to be much more. <\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>The photo of the boat with the grave marker in the foreground, in memory of a whaler from New Bedford.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJ8_T37pp4I\/AAAAAAAAAFg\/ohglVtiQ0vY\/s1600-h\/ice.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJ8_T37pp4I\/AAAAAAAAAFg\/ohglVtiQ0vY\/s320\/ice.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232970902692013954\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJ8_UG2RCwI\/AAAAAAAAAFo\/jeRLZfGA6gE\/s1600-h\/whale+ho.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJ8_UG2RCwI\/AAAAAAAAAFo\/jeRLZfGA6gE\/s320\/whale+ho.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232970906695961346\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 1984 I was invited to go to the Beaufort Sea, the western arctic by boat, a 65 foot motorsailer belonging to John Bockstoce,&#8221; Mr. Arctic.&#8221; A completely new adventure for me, non racing. Such an interesting group, I read everything I could before I joined the boat. I have included photos of ice and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=20\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Western Arctic<\/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":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic","category-john-bockstoce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}