{"id":3363,"date":"2012-05-14T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2012-05-14T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:19:28","slug":"americas-cup-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"AMERICA&#8217;S CUP IN VENICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3363 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\/2012\/05\/grand-canal-12-22-11-77333.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/grand-canal-12-22-11-77333-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/grand-canal-12-22-11-77333-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/grand-canal-12-22-11-77333-48x48.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-1-3364'>\n\t\t\t\tLOOKING WEST ON THE GRAND CANAL\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\/2012\/05\/grand-canal-12-22-11-77358-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/grand-canal-12-22-11-77358-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/grand-canal-12-22-11-77358-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/grand-canal-12-22-11-77358-1-48x48.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-1-3365'>\n\t\t\t\tLOOKING EAST ON THE GRAND CANAL\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\/2012\/05\/venice-panorama-5-14-12.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/venice-panorama-5-14-12-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/venice-panorama-5-14-12-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/venice-panorama-5-14-12-48x48.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-1-3366'>\n\t\t\t\tPANORAMA OF THE ENTRANCE TO VENICE\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\/2012\/05\/415842_356551391068592_100001412028875_957073_1523964364_o.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/415842_356551391068592_100001412028875_957073_1523964364_o-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/415842_356551391068592_100001412028875_957073_1523964364_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/415842_356551391068592_100001412028875_957073_1523964364_o-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-1-3367'>\n\t\t\t\tPHOTO BY GILES MARTIN RAGET\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I cannot imagine a more spectacular setting for the kind of racing that is now the America&#8217;s Cup World Tour. Plymouth England must have been wonderful as from the Hoe one can look out with an unobstructed view. Fort Adams guarding the entrance to Narragansett Bay will provide a perfect stadium, but not much can compare to Venice.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to click on the panorama which is a rather good view of the open water leading to the Grand Canal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot imagine a more spectacular setting for the kind of racing that is now the America&#8217;s Cup World Tour. Plymouth England must have been wonderful as from the Hoe one can look out with an unobstructed view. Fort Adams guarding the entrance to Narragansett Bay will provide a perfect stadium, but not much can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AMERICA&#8217;S CUP IN VENICE<\/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":[632],"tags":[600,2397,525,1071],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup-34-2","tag-ac-45","tag-americas-cup","tag-americas-cup-34","tag-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","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=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}