{"id":83,"date":"2008-09-30T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-09-30T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T19:28:00","slug":"teddy-nelson-ida-lewis-yacht-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Nelson &amp; Ida Lewis Yacht Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SOJ-z2R_60I\/AAAAAAAAA88\/Mz0lfdfb4RA\/s1600-h\/ida+lewis:balloons.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SOJ-z2R_60I\/AAAAAAAAA88\/Mz0lfdfb4RA\/s320\/ida+lewis:balloons.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251899544676854594\" \/><\/a>Teddy Nelson had been the Steward at Ida Lewis Yacht Club for many years. His father had held the position before him. Both had been devoted to the club. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>During a storm, Teddy would be the one who saved your boat, ever vigilant, he would sleep at the club if foul weather was forecast.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>In the photo Teddy is toasting my graduation from St. Georges&#8217;s School.Teddy was of a generation that thought he would be employed at the club until he could no longer do the job or he died. I believe he was terminated in 1972. It broke his spirit, he never really recovered from it. I resigned from the club when it happened.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SOJ-0EKTw4I\/AAAAAAAAA9E\/BtzRKstxeHA\/s1600-h\/teddy+nelson+1966.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SOJ-0EKTw4I\/AAAAAAAAA9E\/BtzRKstxeHA\/s320\/teddy+nelson+1966.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251899548402697090\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teddy Nelson had been the Steward at Ida Lewis Yacht Club for many years. His father had held the position before him. Both had been devoted to the club. During a storm, Teddy would be the one who saved your boat, ever vigilant, he would sleep at the club if foul weather was forecast. In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=83\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teddy Nelson &amp; Ida Lewis Yacht Club<\/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":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ida-lewis-yacht-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}