{"id":247,"date":"2010-04-17T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2010-04-17T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T13:53:00","slug":"the-pillars-of-hercules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"The Pillars of Hercules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S8m6fzuPU2I\/AAAAAAAAB_Q\/DC-PmUsU8nQ\/s1600\/atlas+mtns955.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S8m6fzuPU2I\/AAAAAAAAB_Q\/DC-PmUsU8nQ\/s320\/atlas+mtns955.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S8m6j0FHcWI\/AAAAAAAAB_Y\/crRTYdpEab0\/s1600\/gibraltar6962.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S8m6j0FHcWI\/AAAAAAAAB_Y\/crRTYdpEab0\/s320\/gibraltar6962.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S8m6_1zZ7EI\/AAAAAAAAB_g\/xNpyT-ErTrQ\/s1600\/atlas+mtns+3959.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S8m6_1zZ7EI\/AAAAAAAAB_g\/xNpyT-ErTrQ\/s320\/atlas+mtns+3959.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Pillars of Hercules, created by Hercules when completing his tenth labor, to capture the oxen of Geryon. For the curious read the 10 labours of Hercules,<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Since I was very young I have enjoyed the Greek mythology; sailing through the straits of Gibraltar, was a sort of dream come true. Not unlike the W boats which are encountering diminishing wind as they enter the Mediterranean, we arrived with 25 knots at our back, sliding smoothly at 5 in the morning, and the wind died with the rising sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pillars of Hercules, created by Hercules when completing his tenth labor, to capture the oxen of Geryon. For the curious read the 10 labours of Hercules,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Since I was very young I have enjoyed the Greek mythology; sailing through the straits of Gibraltar, was a sort of dream come true. Not unlike the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pillars of Hercules<\/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":[317,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlas-mountains","category-gibraltar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}