{"id":29285,"date":"2017-11-01T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29285"},"modified":"2017-11-01T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:23:20","slug":"pushing-the-limits-of-human-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/11\/pushing-the-limits-of-human-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing the Limits of Human Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>There is something about sailing and sailing offshore that really stirs our sense of adventure. The need to be entirely self-sufficient and competent makes us better at everything we do.\u00a0Humankind has challenged nature\u2019s boundaries for centuries. But will we recognize our limits when we reach them?\u00a0Donna Eastlake\u00a0questions our insatiable urge to overcome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Challenging boundaries is a part of human nature; it\u2019s how we discovered the world isn\u2019t flat and put a man on the moon. But what happens when we\u2019ve apparently conquered all horizons? For some, the answer is simple; push further still, taking to sea in smaller craft, against the clock or, in the case of Laura Dekker, as the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the globe. So how long will Laura hold her title? She\u2019s the youngest now, but it\u2019s surely only a matter of time before someone seeks to usurp her crown. The very possibility would make many breathless, but for some it\u2019s an opportunity impossible to resist. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailingtoday.co.uk\/news\/pushing-limits\/\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about sailing and sailing offshore that really stirs our sense of adventure. The need to be entirely self-sufficient and competent makes us better at everything we do.\u00a0Humankind has challenged nature\u2019s boundaries for centuries. But will we recognize our limits when we reach them?\u00a0Donna Eastlake\u00a0questions our insatiable urge to overcome. &nbsp; Challenging boundaries is a part of human nature; it\u2019s how we discovered the world isn\u2019t flat and put a man on the moon. But what happens when we\u2019ve apparently conquered all horizons? For some, the answer is simple; push further still, taking to sea in smaller craft, against the clock or, in the case of Laura Dekker, as the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the globe. So how long will Laura hold her title? She\u2019s the youngest now, but it\u2019s surely only a matter of time before someone seeks to usurp her crown. The very possibility would make many breathless, but for some it\u2019s an opportunity impossible to resist. Read more.\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29272,"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\/29285"}],"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=29285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29288,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29285\/revisions\/29288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}