{"id":4850,"date":"2012-11-28T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2012-11-28T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T13:56:27","slug":"contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4850","title":{"rendered":"CONTENDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ItqizpBHk0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> You would have to be my age to remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contenderclass.org\">Contender class<\/a> It is almost nonexistent in the United States; the stronghold of the class is Europe. I regard the class as the first performance singlehanded boat, well before the 49er, the moth as we know it today.<br \/>\n The other part of me is always amused by the possibilities offered by &#8220;modern&#8221; cameras. I am assuming this was shot with a <a href=\"http:\/\/gopro.com\">go pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would have to be my age to remember the Contender class It is almost nonexistent in the United States; the stronghold of the class is Europe. I regard the class as the first performance singlehanded boat, well before the 49er, the moth as we know it today. The other part of me is always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CONTENDER<\/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":[216],"tags":[1515,682],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinghy-racing","tag-contender","tag-dinghy-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","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=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4851,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions\/4851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}