{"id":4657,"date":"2014-12-14T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2014-12-22T00:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T00:22:26","slug":"a-social-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=4657","title":{"rendered":"A social call."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4658\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Union.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4658\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4658\" src=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Union.jpg\" alt=\"Nothing to do but watch the sun set.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Union.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Union-300x125.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Union-500x208.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nothing to do but watch the sun set.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">Just one last stopover before Trinidad. Union island. Not my favourite, but a chance to catch up with Ron on his yacht Restless before I get stuck on more mundane matters. No ma, I don&#8217;t mean you ma&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">Who&#8217;s Ron?<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">In the world of single handed yachtsmen, with 25 years+ of cruising under his belt, Ron is a legend. Well, perhaps an almost legend. Or would be legend, if anyone outside of sailing circles knew about him. Since he doesn&#8217;t write a blog, promote a rally or attempt to build a marina like some narcissistic self promoting sailor types, we may never know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">However, we are all waiting on the book!<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">Speaking of which, I did meet another single hander in Honduras on a gaffer with more than 45 years of cruising who did write a book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u201c<a href=\"%20http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Little-Fish-Pond-John-Smith\/dp\/0595263615\" target=\"_blank\">Little Fish Big Pond<\/a>\u201d John A. Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">Makes my eight years with Eileen seem paltry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one last stopover before Trinidad. Union island. Not my favourite, but a chance to catch up with Ron on his yacht Restless before I get stuck on more mundane matters. No ma, I don&#8217;t mean you ma&#8230;. Who&#8217;s Ron? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=4657\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1095],"tags":[1375,1374,1373,6,944,745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4675,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions\/4675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}