{"id":29645,"date":"2018-01-03T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29645"},"modified":"2018-01-03T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:25:43","slug":"women-making-waves-in-the-volvo-ocean-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/01\/women-making-waves-in-the-volvo-ocean-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Making Waves in the Volvo\u00a0Ocean Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sailing is one sport where women and men can compete of a fairly level playing field. This has been proved once again by the women sailing in the toughest ocean race on the planet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Five women, including celebrities Ashley Judd and Taylor Swift, appeared on the cover of\u00a0<em>Time<\/em>\u00a0magazine, heralded as the \u201c2017 Person of the Year.\u201d From Hollywood to Capitol Hill, thousands of women are stepping forward and this movement now extends to the high seas.\u00a0For the first time, every boat in the Volvo Ocean Race has at least one female sailor on-board. The 13th edition of the race, first known as the Whitbread Round-the-World Race, began in late October in Alicante, Spain, featuring seven boats for the 45,000 nautical mile contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Volvo Ocean Race is the ultimate test of a team in sport,\u201d says Dee Caffari, who is skippering a team with five women and five men on board across the seven seas. <a href=\"https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@flipboard\/-women-making-waves-in-volvo-ocean-race\/f-2fed7a1dc6%2Fhuffingtonpost.com\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sailing is one sport where women and men can compete of a fairly level playing field. This has been proved once again by the women sailing in the toughest ocean race on the planet. &nbsp; Five women, including celebrities Ashley Judd and Taylor Swift, appeared on the cover of\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine, heralded as the \u201c2017 Person of the Year.\u201d From Hollywood to Capitol Hill, thousands of women are stepping forward and this movement now extends to the high seas.\u00a0For the first time, every boat in the Volvo Ocean Race has at least one female sailor on-board. The 13th edition of the race, first known as the Whitbread Round-the-World Race, began in late October in Alicante, Spain, featuring seven boats for the 45,000 nautical mile contest. \u201cThe Volvo Ocean Race is the ultimate test of a team in sport,\u201d says Dee Caffari, who is skippering a team with five women and five men on board across the seven seas. Read more. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29635,"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\/29645"}],"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=29645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29649,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions\/29649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}