{"id":34,"date":"2008-08-15T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-08-15T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T15:34:00","slug":"1973-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"1973 continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKWkdUGv1bI\/AAAAAAAAAP8\/MjncO93cDvY\/s1600-h\/pic+du+midi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKWkdUGv1bI\/AAAAAAAAAP8\/MjncO93cDvY\/s320\/pic+du+midi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234770965408241074\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKWiqAU4zMI\/AAAAAAAAAPc\/DVgOyb3506A\/s1600-h\/bernadette:stephen:aste.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKWiqAU4zMI\/AAAAAAAAAPc\/DVgOyb3506A\/s320\/bernadette:stephen:aste.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234768984413883586\" \/><\/a>  I eluded to the breath of events for 1973, My wedding was one whose date was a established after consulting the sailing schedule. With Admiral&#8217;s Cup and the Fastnet behind me  I could concentrate on my future wife. We were married in Aste, a small village in the Pyrenees mountains, which separate France from Spain. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Never has there been such a wonderful event  at least as far as I am concerned. Not only was I welcomed into my wife&#8217;s family, It was the best party I ever attended. Since then I have come to know this region of France, and it has become part of me.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Although it is not near the sea, I brought the first windsurfer to France, sailing it in the lakes in the Mountains. At the time I was reviled by the fishermen, today the fishermen are gone and there is a fleet of windsurfers.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKWiqaUysJI\/AAAAAAAAAPk\/F6mXGGoNvl0\/s1600-h\/family+and+children.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKWiqaUysJI\/AAAAAAAAAPk\/F6mXGGoNvl0\/s320\/family+and+children.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234768991392805010\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKWiqpo1IjI\/AAAAAAAAAPs\/bQmEkDx-jvI\/s1600-h\/wedding+cake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKWiqpo1IjI\/AAAAAAAAAPs\/bQmEkDx-jvI\/s320\/wedding+cake.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234768995503383090\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKWiqhdQdBI\/AAAAAAAAAP0\/6dcuR4kfA2w\/s1600-h\/speech.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKWiqhdQdBI\/AAAAAAAAAP0\/6dcuR4kfA2w\/s320\/speech.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234768993307358226\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I eluded to the breath of events for 1973, My wedding was one whose date was a established after consulting the sailing schedule. With Admiral&#8217;s Cup and the Fastnet behind me I could concentrate on my future wife. We were married in Aste, a small village in the Pyrenees mountains, which separate France from Spain. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1973 continued<\/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":[92,64,93,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admirals-cup","category-fastnet-race","category-pyrenees","category-rorc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}