{"id":22553,"date":"2015-04-07T19:45:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22553"},"modified":"2015-04-07T19:45:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T19:45:23","slug":"sailor-rescued-off-cape-hatteras-releases-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/04\/sailor-rescued-off-cape-hatteras-releases-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailor Rescued Off Cape Hatteras Releases Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Louis-Jordan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Louis-Jordan.jpg\" alt=\"Louis-Jordan\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Louis-Jordan.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Louis-Jordan-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man rescued from a disabled sailboat off the North Carolina coast responded to critics of his story on Monday, explaining that he avoided sunburn and blisters by staying in the vessel&#8217;s cabin and that he survived by rationing food and water.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Jordan&#8217;s three-paragraph statement says he stayed inside the cabin to keep dry and avoid sun, wind, waves and sea spray. &#8220;Every time I went outside, I exposed myself to getting my clothes drenched, which would have made it harder for me to keep warm,&#8221; Jordan said. &#8220;My blankets were already soaked, and often there was no way of hanging up my clothes to dry. Keeping dry was vital to my survival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/6b5cd5458d71449392886ed42a7656d8\/missing-sailor-i-survived-staying-inside-rationing\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man rescued from a disabled sailboat off the North Carolina coast responded to critics of his story on Monday, explaining that he avoided sunburn and blisters by staying in the vessel&#8217;s cabin and that he survived by rationing food and water. Louis Jordan&#8217;s three-paragraph statement says he stayed inside the cabin to keep dry and avoid sun, wind, waves and sea spray. &#8220;Every time I went outside, I exposed myself to getting my clothes drenched, which would have made it harder for me to keep warm,&#8221; Jordan said. &#8220;My blankets were already soaked, and often there was no way of hanging up my clothes to dry. Keeping dry was vital to my survival.&#8221; Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553"}],"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=22553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22555,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553\/revisions\/22555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}