{"id":37197,"date":"2021-07-16T12:50:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=37197"},"modified":"2021-07-16T12:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:50:28","slug":"transatlantic-racing-in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2021\/07\/transatlantic-racing-in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Racing in the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People often think of yacht racing as a &#8216;gentleman&#8217;s sport&#8217; yet the first transatlantic race\u00a0 (December 1866) started, not as a well-conceived event but, on a bet when three men went out on the town and drank heavily enough to propose that first race. According to Sam Jefferson, author of Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic, tells <em>The Daily Beast. \u201cIt was just, \u2018We&#8217;re gonna do this race now because we\u2019re rich and that\u2019s what we do.\u2019\u00a0<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-hard-drinking-playboys-who-made-transatlantic-sailing-history\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often think of yacht racing as a &#8216;gentleman&#8217;s sport&#8217; yet the first transatlantic race\u00a0 (December 1866) started, not as a well-conceived event but, on a bet when three men went out on the town and drank heavily enough to propose that first race. According to Sam Jefferson, author of Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic, tells The Daily Beast. \u201cIt was just, \u2018We&#8217;re gonna do this race now because we\u2019re rich and that\u2019s what we do.\u2019\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37184,"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\/37197"}],"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=37197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37198,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions\/37198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}