{"id":140,"date":"2009-05-13T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2009-05-13T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:18:00","slug":"when-there-was-no-limit-on-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"When there was no limit on weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgrzswCqV_I\/AAAAAAAABQU\/Mt0GMWmQ_R8\/s1600-h\/sc00223fb405.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgrzswCqV_I\/AAAAAAAABQU\/Mt0GMWmQ_R8\/s320\/sc00223fb405.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335344658709633010\" \/><\/a>I am not a big person. I have had to deal with my size all my life. I am not whining, I is a simple statement of fact. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>In my early years of sailing there was no limit on the amount of weight one could carry. I carried as much as I could bear, more than most other people. I would wear knee pads the wrong way around. I exercised, I built a hiking bench. I would sit, hiking out stacking books or weights on my chest. It should come as no surprise that I had lower back problems.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I had made hiking jackets, by sewing groups of eight sweat shirts together. Then either bailing water onto myself or dunking myself in the water, to gain weight. Once I wore so many, when I turned my head I could not see over the collar of the weight jackets.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgrzsqYWgEI\/AAAAAAAABQM\/IslvAwaIisw\/s1600-h\/me+sunfish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgrzsqYWgEI\/AAAAAAAABQM\/IslvAwaIisw\/s320\/me+sunfish.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335344657189994562\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgrzseRoMJI\/AAAAAAAABQE\/98EnlYCRbSY\/s1600-h\/sc00223fb406.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgrzseRoMJI\/AAAAAAAABQE\/98EnlYCRbSY\/s320\/sc00223fb406.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335344653940568210\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a big person. I have had to deal with my size all my life. I am not whining, I is a simple statement of fact. In my early years of sailing there was no limit on the amount of weight one could carry. I carried as much as I could bear, more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When there was no limit on weight<\/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":[216,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinghy-racing","category-finn-dinghy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}