{"id":22226,"date":"2015-02-17T23:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T23:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22226"},"modified":"2015-02-18T00:03:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T00:03:26","slug":"canadian-sailor-returns-to-turkish-home-after-surviving-arctic-ice-atlantic-hurricanes-aboard-homemade-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/02\/canadian-sailor-returns-to-turkish-home-after-surviving-arctic-ice-atlantic-hurricanes-aboard-homemade-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Sailor Returns to Turkish Home After Surviving Arctic Ice, Atlantic Hurricanes Aboard Homemade Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/altan-girl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/altan-girl.jpg\" alt=\"P97B7597[1].JPG\" width=\"940\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/altan-girl.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/altan-girl-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/altan-girl-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">A hero\u2019s welcome greeted Erkan Gursoy as he motored his peculiar sailing craft\u00a0into the Turkish port of \u00c7anakkale: Flowers, ceremonies, VIP dinners, TV appearances and \u201cmore flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1972, Mr. Gursoy had been a 25-year-old blacksmith when he left his Turkish home for a life in British Columbia. Now, at 68, he was returning in the most swashbuckling way possible: on a homemade aluminum boat he had guided through thousands of miles of Arctic ice and Atlantic hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI wanted to make a meaningful return to Turkey,\u201d said Mr. Gursoy, speaking by cellphone from aboard his noticeably damaged boat, the Altan Girl, which is now moored in the West Istanbul Marina. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/metro\/sailor+returns+Turkish+home+after+surviving+Arctic+Atlantic\/10800437\/story.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hero\u2019s welcome greeted Erkan Gursoy as he motored his peculiar sailing craft\u00a0into the Turkish port of \u00c7anakkale: Flowers, ceremonies, VIP dinners, TV appearances and \u201cmore flowers.\u201d In 1972, Mr. Gursoy had been a 25-year-old blacksmith when he left his Turkish home for a life in British Columbia. Now, at 68, he was returning in the most swashbuckling way possible: on a homemade aluminum boat he had guided through thousands of miles of Arctic ice and Atlantic hurricanes. \u201cI wanted to make a meaningful return to Turkey,\u201d said Mr. Gursoy, speaking by cellphone from aboard his noticeably damaged boat, the Altan Girl, which is now moored in the West Istanbul Marina. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[376,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226"}],"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=22226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22228,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226\/revisions\/22228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}