{"id":21944,"date":"2014-12-30T19:47:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=21944"},"modified":"2014-12-30T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:53:05","slug":"dr-stanley-paris-aborts-second-solo-non-stop-round-the-world-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2014\/12\/dr-stanley-paris-aborts-second-solo-non-stop-round-the-world-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stanley Paris Aborts Second Solo Non-Stop Round the World Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>After embarking on a second attempt to break or set several\u00a0round the world records, Dr. Stanley Paris has again been forced\u00a0to call it quits and diverted to Cape Town, South Africa (pictured below)&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/paris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/paris.jpg\" alt=\"paris\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/paris.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/paris-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/paris-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/paris-940x705.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">From Paris&#8217; blog: Once again my attempt to complete a solo circumnavigation has come to an end. On Xmas Eve the top quarter of the mail sail separated along a seam from the rest of the sail. This is not repairable by me at sea and given the gales I can expect before I round the tip of South Africa it is once again not advisable to continue. This is of course is a big disappointment to me and too many who have wished me well. But that is life. I have never let difficulties get in my way of trying something worthwhile. I am always aware that failure can occur but I have never let the fear of failure deter or prevent me from trying. To do so would be to accept mediocrity and that I will never do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stanleyparis.com\/?page_id=178\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After embarking on a second attempt to break or set several\u00a0round the world records, Dr. Stanley Paris has again been forced\u00a0to call it quits and diverted to Cape Town, South Africa (pictured below)&#8230; From Paris&#8217; blog: Once again my attempt to complete a solo circumnavigation has come to an end. On Xmas Eve the top quarter of the mail sail separated along a seam from the rest of the sail. This is not repairable by me at sea and given the gales I can expect before I round the tip of South Africa it is once again not advisable to continue. This is of course is a big disappointment to me and too many who have wished me well. But that is life. I have never let difficulties get in my way of trying something worthwhile. I am always aware that failure can occur but I have never let the fear of failure deter or prevent me from trying. To do so would be to accept mediocrity and that I will never do. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[306,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21946,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944\/revisions\/21946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}