{"id":8576,"date":"2014-07-21T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8576"},"modified":"2014-07-21T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:35:09","slug":"july-20-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8576","title":{"rendered":"WHERE WERE YOU JULY 20 1969?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was aboard “Carina<\/a>” having finished the trans-atlantic race to Ireland, we were headed to Cowes for the Admiral’s Cup<\/a> and Fastnet races. ( The US team won the Admiral’s Cup that year). I remember it being cold and foggy as we huddled around the radio at the nav station to listen the the BBC which stayed on beyond their usual sign-off time of mid-night to carry the news of the moon landing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I will add that when I returned to the US at the end of the season; my college roommate was coming to pick me up at the airport, when another college friend passed me and asked: “how was Woodstock?”. I replied: “what was Woodstock<\/a>? I was probably the only one of my generation not to have gone, much less not to be aware of the event.\"fastnet<\/a> \"fastnet<\/a><\/p>\n

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FASTNET ROCK, RICHARD S NYE, STEPHEN LIRAKIS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I was aboard “Carina” having finished the trans-atlantic race to Ireland, we were headed to Cowes for the Admiral’s Cup and Fastnet races. ( The US team won the Admiral’s Cup that year). I remember it being cold and foggy as we huddled around the radio at the nav station to listen the the … Continue reading WHERE WERE YOU JULY 20 1969?<\/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":[92,255,44,172,66,64,1514,254,345,1200,281,173],"tags":[2452,2401,2062],"class_list":["post-8576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admirals-cup","category-apollo-11","category-carina","category-cork-ireland","category-cowes-week","category-fastnet-race","category-moon","category-neil-armstrong","category-photography","category-richard-b-nye","category-richard-s-nye","category-royal-cork-yacht-club","tag-apollo-11","tag-carina","tag-moon-landing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576","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=8576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8580,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions\/8580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}