{"id":201,"date":"2009-09-28T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:47:47","slug":"26-years-ago-in-12-meter-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"26 years ago in 12 meter history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SsC9F6I5gSI\/AAAAAAAABsM\/3JB2PKIim7I\/s1600-h\/benlexan:keel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 204px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SsC9F6I5gSI\/AAAAAAAABsM\/3JB2PKIim7I\/s320\/benlexan:keel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386513063538688290\" \/><\/a>The New York Yacht Club lost the America&#8217;s Cup 26 years ago this September. Change is always troubling for anyone. I have always regarded this event as: the right thing happened for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Change is inevitable, we all know, but all resist nonetheless. This was one of those occasions. It breathed new life into the Cup life.<\/div>\n<div><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SsC86WwIWwI\/AAAAAAAABsE\/mTr906JBL1I\/s1600-h\/1983+america%27s+cup.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 255px; height: 174px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SsC86WwIWwI\/AAAAAAAABsE\/mTr906JBL1I\/s320\/1983+america%27s+cup.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386512865061001986\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SsC86AXM93I\/AAAAAAAABr8\/RMauwsN02eU\/s1600-h\/DSC_3936.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SsC86AXM93I\/AAAAAAAABr8\/RMauwsN02eU\/s320\/DSC_3936.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386512859050866546\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SsC85rb36tI\/AAAAAAAABr0\/dTfqHyfOa4E\/s1600-h\/DSC_4101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SsC85rb36tI\/AAAAAAAABr0\/dTfqHyfOa4E\/s320\/DSC_4101.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386512853433314002\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SsC85Im8w4I\/AAAAAAAABrs\/Lf5AlHkCKh0\/s1600-h\/the+final+moments.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 173px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SsC85Im8w4I\/AAAAAAAABrs\/Lf5AlHkCKh0\/s320\/the+final+moments.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386512844084528002\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yacht Club lost the America&#8217;s Cup 26 years ago this September. Change is always troubling for anyone. I have always regarded this event as: the right thing happened for all the wrong reasons. Change is inevitable, we all know, but all resist nonetheless. This was one of those occasions. It breathed new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">26 years ago in 12 meter history<\/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":[40,49,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup","category-itma","category-nyyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}