{"id":32885,"date":"2019-04-19T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=32885"},"modified":"2019-04-19T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T15:34:14","slug":"protect-you-and-your-boat-from-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2019\/04\/protect-you-and-your-boat-from-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect You and Your Boat From Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The marine insurance company, Gowrie Group has an article on what exactly lightning is, the possibility of a strike and prevention measures. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lightning is a channel of negative charge that zigzags downward in roughly 50-yard segments in a forked pattern. It shoots to the ground in less time than it takes to blink. As it nears the ground, the negatively charged particles (called a leader) are attracted to a channel of positive charge reaching up (called a streamer), normally through something tall, such as a tree, house, or telephone pole (or a mast!). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gowrie.com\/pdfs\/Gowrie_When-Lightning-Strikes.pdf\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marine insurance company, Gowrie Group has an article on what exactly lightning is, the possibility of a strike and prevention measures. Lightning is a channel of negative charge that zigzags downward in roughly 50-yard segments in a forked pattern. It shoots to the ground in less time than it takes to blink. As it nears the ground, the negatively charged particles (called a leader) are attracted to a channel of positive charge reaching up (called a streamer), normally through something tall, such as a tree, house, or telephone pole (or a mast!). Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32886,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885\/revisions\/32886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}