{"id":126,"date":"2009-03-23T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2009-03-23T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:27:00","slug":"back-to-my-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"BACK TO MY ROOTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ScfVBUiFyMI\/AAAAAAAABI8\/6lopRY3_X38\/s1600-h\/IMGP1613.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ScfVBUiFyMI\/AAAAAAAABI8\/6lopRY3_X38\/s320\/IMGP1613.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316452103802439874\" \/><\/a>Sunday,during the winter in New England is frostbite day. This past Sunday I had the opportunity to race dinghys against several of my old college teammates, Skip Whyte and Bob Hicks. It occurred to me during the day that I had not sailed a dinghy since 1972. Great fun, I exhibited rust. I really like the format of short races, as in college sailing.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ScfVBVJi-II\/AAAAAAAABI0\/aKLWAwlkeqQ\/s1600-h\/IMGP1619.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ScfVBVJi-II\/AAAAAAAABI0\/aKLWAwlkeqQ\/s320\/IMGP1619.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316452103967930498\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ScfVAo-TVlI\/AAAAAAAABIs\/DlDVhER7l5s\/s1600-h\/IMGP1614.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ScfVAo-TVlI\/AAAAAAAABIs\/DlDVhER7l5s\/s320\/IMGP1614.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316452092109608530\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday,during the winter in New England is frostbite day. This past Sunday I had the opportunity to race dinghys against several of my old college teammates, Skip Whyte and Bob Hicks. It occurred to me during the day that I had not sailed a dinghy since 1972. Great fun, I exhibited rust. I really like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BACK TO MY ROOTS<\/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":[203,24,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sea-dogs","category-skip-whyte","category-uri-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","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=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}