{"id":30523,"date":"2018-04-18T15:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=30523"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:40:37","slug":"were-weathered-but-wiser-first-time-cruisers-learn-hard-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/04\/were-weathered-but-wiser-first-time-cruisers-learn-hard-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Weathered but Wiser: First Time Cruisers Learn Hard Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Living the dream of cruising around the world in their own sailboat, a British couple discover that the life at sea is not all rum drink with umbrellas in them, not all sunny spinnaker run and quiet nights at anchor.\u00a0 Kellie Pollock, who was a CNN producer, and her husband made it from England to the Mediterranean island of Sardinia in their first six months afloat \u201cweather and wiser\u201d for the experience. Here\u2019s Pollock\u2019s story as it appears on CNN\u2019s website.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just need to sit under a tree for a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese were the words of my grab-life-by-the-scruff-of-the-neck husband after finishing our first six months bobbing about in the sea.\u00a0 Our decision to sell up, buy a boat and sail around the world had been slightly more challenging than anticipated.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/17\/sport\/sailing-around-the-world-kellie-pollock-spt\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living the dream of cruising around the world in their own sailboat, a British couple discover that the life at sea is not all rum drink with umbrellas in them, not all sunny spinnaker run and quiet nights at anchor.\u00a0 Kellie Pollock, who was a CNN producer, and her husband made it from England to the Mediterranean island of Sardinia in their first six months afloat \u201cweather and wiser\u201d for the experience. Here\u2019s Pollock\u2019s story as it appears on CNN\u2019s website. &nbsp; \u201cI just need to sit under a tree for a while.&#8221; \u201cThese were the words of my grab-life-by-the-scruff-of-the-neck husband after finishing our first six months bobbing about in the sea.\u00a0 Our decision to sell up, buy a boat and sail around the world had been slightly more challenging than anticipated.\u201d Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30533,"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\/30523"}],"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=30523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30573,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions\/30573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}