{"id":2527,"date":"2011-12-10T15:48:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T20:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2011-12-10T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T20:48:23","slug":"wrongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2527","title":{"rendered":"TWO WRONGS DO NOT MAKE A RIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rule 69 hearing which has resulted in Ben Anslie having been disqualified form two races in the Olympic regatta in Perth, may just be the pivotal moment in Ben&#8217;s life. See photos <a href=\"http:\/\/sailingpix.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/Ben-Ainslie-confronts-skipper-and-photographer-at-World-Champs\/G0000uXhrsGqrj50\/I0000yfiGAtrJ1LA\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fact that rule 69 even exists is a sad statement about us. It is regrettably necessary. I again am aware of other similar stories. I have had my course impeded by a photographer&#8217;s boat, who justified his actions as the freedom to take pictures. This past September I was driving a boat for the film crew for Rolex, for a major regatta; where I positioned the boat as close to those racing as I could. I would like to think I never made them feel that the racers might need to alter course because of our boat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rule 69 hearing which has resulted in Ben Anslie having been disqualified form two races in the Olympic regatta in Perth, may just be the pivotal moment in Ben&#8217;s life. See photos HERE. The fact that rule 69 even exists is a sad statement about us. It is regrettably necessary. I again am aware &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TWO WRONGS DO NOT MAKE A RIGHT<\/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":[1056],"tags":[960,2556,1057],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rule-69","tag-ben-anslie","tag-olympics","tag-rule-69-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","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=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}