{"id":5745,"date":"2013-04-11T21:35:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T02:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2013-04-11T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T02:35:40","slug":"reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5745","title":{"rendered":"ALL THE RIGHT REASONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5746\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5746\" alt=\"FRANCE TO FRANCE\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson400-679x1024.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson400-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson400.jpg 892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FRANCE TO FRANCE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5747\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson-4-11-13-167887.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5747\" alt=\"RICH WILSON\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson-4-11-13-167887-1024x801.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson-4-11-13-167887-1024x801.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson-4-11-13-167887-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson-4-11-13-167887.jpg 1978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RICH WILSON<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5748\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson-4-11-13-167884.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5748\" alt=\"LIFE RAFT AND SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson-4-11-13-167884-1024x679.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson-4-11-13-167884-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rich-wilson-4-11-13-167884-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LIFE RAFT AND SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tonight I listened to Rich Wilson speak about his adventure of sailing the Vendee Globe race. The occasion was the 30th anniversary of Lift Raft and Survival Equipment, begun by Jim O&#8217;Oconnor.<\/p>\n<p>Rich knew he would not and could not win the race but embraced the adventure. Quite apart from the gripping story of the race itself was how surprised, mystified he was by the French people. He learned something about himself because he was open to see what was around him.<\/p>\n<p>His adventure was for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tonight I listened to Rich Wilson speak about his adventure of sailing the Vendee Globe race. The occasion was the 30th anniversary of Lift Raft and Survival Equipment, begun by Jim O&#8217;Oconnor. Rich knew he would not and could not win the race but embraced the adventure. Quite apart from the gripping story of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALL THE RIGHT REASONS<\/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":[1501],"tags":[1611],"class_list":["post-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vendee-globe","tag-rich-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","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=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5749,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions\/5749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}