{"id":28804,"date":"2017-08-22T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=28804"},"modified":"2017-08-22T16:18:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T16:18:35","slug":"edward-allcard-solo-sailor-on-the-high-seas-dies-at-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/08\/edward-allcard-solo-sailor-on-the-high-seas-dies-at-102\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Allcard, Solo Sailor on the High Seas, Dies at 102"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Allcard, who was said to be the first person to sail both ways across the Atlantic singlehandedly &#8211;save for a stretch with a young woman who stowed away on his return home to England&#8211;died on July 28 in Andorra, a principality in the Pyrenees Mountains, where he lived. He was 102. His Wife, Clare Allcard, said the cause of death was complications from a broken leg.\u00a0\u00a0A bearded adventurer who loved life alone at sea &#8211;he also circumnavigated the globe alone&#8211; Mr. Allcard was a child in England when he first thought of sailing for America. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/18\/world\/europe\/edward-allcard-dead-sailed-solo-across-atlantic-and-back.html\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Allcard, who was said to be the first person to sail both ways across the Atlantic singlehandedly &#8211;save for a stretch with a young woman who stowed away on his return home to England&#8211;died on July 28 in Andorra, a principality in the Pyrenees Mountains, where he lived. He was 102. His Wife, Clare Allcard, said the cause of death was complications from a broken leg.\u00a0\u00a0A bearded adventurer who loved life alone at sea &#8211;he also circumnavigated the globe alone&#8211; Mr. Allcard was a child in England when he first thought of sailing for America. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28831,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804\/revisions\/28831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}