{"id":2270,"date":"2011-10-15T07:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2011-10-15T07:30:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T12:30:03","slug":"nantucket-sleigh-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2270","title":{"rendered":"NANTUCKET SLEIGH RIDE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"150\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/photos_2011_2\/std_Whale%20story%20whale1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;\">Whale towing yacht out to sea by the anchor line\u00a0\u00a0.. .<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The quirkiest story of the week happened just off Fraser Island in Queensland: A whale picked up an anchor line and towed a yacht and its two crew 1.5nm out to sea. The whale, no doubt, was just as alarmed as the crew \u2013 with the rope in his mouth, dragging an anchor on one side and a yacht on the other. They finally cut the line and lost both whale and anchor. Can you imagine filling out the insurance claim form for the loss of that anchor? Or the reaction of the insurance assessor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whale towing yacht out to sea by the anchor line\u00a0\u00a0.. . The quirkiest story of the week happened just off Fraser Island in Queensland: A whale picked up an anchor line and towed a yacht and its two crew 1.5nm out to sea. The whale, no doubt, was just as alarmed as the crew \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NANTUCKET SLEIGH RIDE?<\/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":[1],"tags":[2447],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","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=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}