{"id":2404,"date":"2011-11-14T23:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2011-11-14T23:44:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:44:51","slug":"stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"STAMPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2404 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing6715.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing6715-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing6715-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing6715-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2405'>\n\t\t\t\tDENNIS CONNOR AND FREEDOM\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing17726.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing17726-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing17726-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing17726-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2406'>\n\t\t\t\t1930 AMERICA&#8217;S CUP\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing20729.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing20729-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing20729-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing20729-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2407'>\n\t\t\t\t1937 RANGER\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing21730.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing21730-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing21730-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing21730-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2408'>\n\t\t\t\tTRANSATLANTIC TO BAYONNE SPAIN 1972\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing32740.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing32740-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing32740-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sailing32740-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2409'>\n\t\t\t\tSHAMROCK 1930\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I have collected stamps most of my life. These are a few from my collection which relate to yachting. Stamps are often issued to commemorate events in history. It was a wonderful way to introduce history to a child. I have been working on an inventory (of thousands of stamps) which has become the work of sisyphus.<\/p>\n<p>I have been reading the news like most of you. Puma is trading the lead with Telefonica and Groupama is now well behind.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Barker won the first event in San Diego in the AC 45&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have collected stamps most of my life. These are a few from my collection which relate to yachting. Stamps are often issued to commemorate events in history. It was a wonderful way to introduce history to a child. I have been working on an inventory (of thousands of stamps) which has become the work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2404\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">STAMPS<\/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":[1021],"tags":[2397,2387,1022,2395],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stamps","tag-americas-cup","tag-bermuda-race","tag-stamps-2","tag-transatlantic-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","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=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}