{"id":1660,"date":"2016-07-13T00:37:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T00:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2016-07-13T00:37:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T00:37:27","slug":"race-to-alaska-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"Race to Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Day 18 of the race, and some of the smaller boats have crossed the line.  In about an hour or so the boat with the chair-bound guys will cross, with my friend Mark on board lending help.  They&#8217;re disqualified from the race for losing a crew member, but they appealed for help to reach their goal anyway, and it looks good for them.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re a crowd favorite, even with their misfortunes, so the Race Committee is tracking them as if they&#8217;re still in the competition.  Assuming they&#8217;ll complete the 750 miles, no doubt they&#8217;ll be back to prove the point, this time paying close attention to the crew makeup and the boat itself.<\/p>\n<p>Rowers have done well because they could keep going while the sailboats were stymied by the lack of wind.  The all-women boats looked great, and they had a lot more fun than the men.  It looks like about 30 boats will finish, of 68 that started. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Day 18 of the race, and some of the smaller boats have crossed the line. In about an hour or so the boat with the chair-bound guys will cross, with my friend Mark on board lending help. They&#8217;re disqualified from the race for losing a crew member, but they appealed for help to reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}