{"id":27,"date":"2008-08-13T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-08-13T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T15:11:00","slug":"windsurfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"windsurfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfr4eNwOOI\/AAAAAAAAAz0\/77QEAsBYmjM\/s1600-h\/windsurfing:payolle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfr4eNwOOI\/AAAAAAAAAz0\/77QEAsBYmjM\/s320\/windsurfing:payolle.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244419646512183522\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfr4nL46MI\/AAAAAAAAAz8\/QLWX_AmsrX8\/s1600-h\/sunfish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfr4nL46MI\/AAAAAAAAAz8\/QLWX_AmsrX8\/s320\/sunfish.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244419648920283330\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKL5zm8laSI\/AAAAAAAAAMQ\/b7fmN6M-gaE\/s1600-h\/windsurfing:payolle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKL5zm8laSI\/AAAAAAAAAMQ\/b7fmN6M-gaE\/s320\/windsurfing:payolle.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234020381981239586\" \/><\/a>I had the first windsurfer on the East coast(sail #48) and won the first New England Championships, which qualified me for the world championship held on Mission Bay, San Diego,CA.(November 1972) I finished sixth, six points out of first, tight racing. As a consequence, I became friendly with Hoyle and Diane Schewitzer;having many wonderful adventures with them. Hoyle has been credited with  inventing the sport and the board. <\/p>\n<div><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKL50FcTamI\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/XIebZ6t91_c\/s1600-h\/me+sunfish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKL50FcTamI\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/XIebZ6t91_c\/s320\/me+sunfish.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234020390167341666\" \/><\/a>This is a photo of me winning the New England Sunfish Championships, unfortunately I do not remember the date.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the first windsurfer on the East coast(sail #48) and won the first New England Championships, which qualified me for the world championship held on Mission Bay, San Diego,CA.(November 1972) I finished sixth, six points out of first, tight racing. As a consequence, I became friendly with Hoyle and Diane Schewitzer;having many wonderful adventures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=27\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">windsurfing<\/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":[79,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoyle-schweitzer","category-sunfish","category-windsurfing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}