{"id":95,"date":"2008-10-30T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2008-10-30T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T15:32:00","slug":"royal-yacht-squadron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SQnVdjeOTAI\/AAAAAAAAA-8\/iwge1qOgomk\/s1600-h\/rys+do+not+take.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 209px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SQnVdjeOTAI\/AAAAAAAAA-8\/iwge1qOgomk\/s320\/rys+do+not+take.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262972343274064898\" \/><\/a>The Royal Yacht Squadron was founded in June 1815; long considered the most prestigious yacht club, perhaps in the world.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Some years ago, I bought at auction two volumes pictured here, &#8220;Burnets Own Times&#8221; 1838. Opening the front cover I found a do not take label. I contacted the RYS librarian concerning these tombs. The response was one wondering how it could be that I might have possession of these books. A tone I initially interpreted as accusatory . I recovered from this thought and in 2005 at the finish of the Trans-atlantic race co-hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron , I returned the books to the Club.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SQnVdTQ8roI\/AAAAAAAAA-0\/nYnnsUEbfN4\/s1600-h\/burnett%27s+own+times+1838.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 211px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SQnVdTQ8roI\/AAAAAAAAA-0\/nYnnsUEbfN4\/s320\/burnett%27s+own+times+1838.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262972338923417218\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SQnVdJ0JEZI\/AAAAAAAAA-s\/WJixGcjmmfY\/s1600-h\/IMGP0187.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SQnVdJ0JEZI\/AAAAAAAAA-s\/WJixGcjmmfY\/s320\/IMGP0187.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262972336386675090\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Yacht Squadron was founded in June 1815; long considered the most prestigious yacht club, perhaps in the world. Some years ago, I bought at auction two volumes pictured here, &#8220;Burnets Own Times&#8221; 1838. Opening the front cover I found a do not take label. I contacted the RYS librarian concerning these tombs. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=95\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON<\/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":[169,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burnets-own-times","category-royal-yacht-squadron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}