{"id":170,"date":"2009-07-30T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:21:02","slug":"iron-men-and-wooden-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"IRON MEN AND WOODEN SHIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnICWDaGQJI\/AAAAAAAABe4\/7r-kh1lOKWU\/s1600-h\/satania%26britannia.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364352684046827666\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 249px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnICWDaGQJI\/AAAAAAAABe4\/7r-kh1lOKWU\/s320\/satania%26britannia.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>If you look at these boats; the sail area, the size of the gear, and no winches to speak of. It really was a time of iron men and wooden ships. The boats needed a long course for a race because of the time involved in setting this much sail.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>I had the good fortune to acquire a large collection of glass slides some years ago of these elegant Edwardian boats.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnICV9hjq_I\/AAAAAAAABew\/mOzW7vPYtdo\/s1600-h\/westward.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364352682467503090\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 249px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnICV9hjq_I\/AAAAAAAABew\/mOzW7vPYtdo\/s320\/westward.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnICVRMj6UI\/AAAAAAAABeo\/9KoRB4l2E0s\/s1600-h\/satania%26valkrie.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364352670568278338\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 318px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnICVRMj6UI\/AAAAAAAABeo\/9KoRB4l2E0s\/s320\/satania%26valkrie.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look at these boats; the sail area, the size of the gear, and no winches to speak of. It really was a time of iron men and wooden ships. The boats needed a long course for a race because of the time involved in setting this much sail. I had the good fortune &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=170\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IRON MEN AND WOODEN SHIPS<\/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":[345],"tags":[522,521],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-glass-negatives","tag-glass-slides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}