{"id":87,"date":"2008-10-17T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2008-10-17T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T13:56:00","slug":"commodore-tompkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Commodore Tompkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SPiZtpJKxyI\/AAAAAAAAA98\/09mk6adcqis\/s1600-h\/warwick+tompkins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SPiZtpJKxyI\/AAAAAAAAA98\/09mk6adcqis\/s320\/warwick+tompkins.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258121574372525858\" \/><\/a>Warwick Tompkins, one of the finest sailors I ever had the pleasure of sailing with. Not only a complete seaman, but a great closed course sailor as well. Independent minded and clear thinking, which occasionally caused friction, but usually right. It may be that this personality trait kept him from being recognized as the truly great sailor he is.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I would, in the words of another friend, sail with Renzo, anywhere, anytime. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warwick Tompkins, one of the finest sailors I ever had the pleasure of sailing with. Not only a complete seaman, but a great closed course sailor as well. Independent minded and clear thinking, which occasionally caused friction, but usually right. It may be that this personality trait kept him from being recognized as the truly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=87\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commodore Tompkins<\/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":[109,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boomerang","category-warwick-tompkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}