{"id":115,"date":"2009-01-06T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:09:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:09:13","slug":"homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SWObE9AhcnI\/AAAAAAAABFU\/ZdxXZloRo0c\/s1600-h\/courageous+loft.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288240896861631090\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 225px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SWObE9AhcnI\/AAAAAAAABFU\/ZdxXZloRo0c\/s320\/courageous+loft.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen I was lofting &#8220;Courageous&#8221; at Minneford&#8217;s on City Island; Phil Rhodes would come around the yard. He was retired from yacht design, but I never met anyone who had been involved in boats to let go just because time had moved on. Boats are a passion. It was clear that for Mr. Rhodes it was no different. We would chat; It must have become clear to him that I shared his passion. He started bringing work sheets with technical problems of various sorts for me to solve. The following week he would collect the &#8220;homework&#8221; and give me another set of problems to work on. I would receive the corrected sheets with comments. Something that continued until his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was lofting &#8220;Courageous&#8221; at Minneford&#8217;s on City Island; Phil Rhodes would come around the yard. He was retired from yacht design, but I never met anyone who had been involved in boats to let go just because time had moved on. Boats are a passion. It was clear that for Mr. Rhodes it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homework<\/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":[42],"tags":[470,2476,513],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-meter-class","tag-12-meters","tag-minnefords","tag-phil-rhodes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}