{"id":16,"date":"2011-03-09T22:06:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T05:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2011-03-09T22:06:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T05:06:57","slug":"rec-center-americas-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Rec Center Pool Wins Bid for 2016 America\u2019s Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[The world\u2019s most popular, and possibly only, sailing race will be held inland for the first time in its 160 year history. \u201cIt will be a different type of challenge,\u201d said BMW Oracle Racing Skipper James Spithill. \u201cWe appreciate the controlled environment the venue offers, and the area in which to navigate is simply massive.\u201d   <!--more-->Central Park Rec Center manager Steven Thill thought of the idea after a local resident snuck a jet ski into the pool, but remained unnoticed for four hours. \u201cWe finally realized just how large of an area we are dealing with.\u201d  The main concern for competitors is the absence of wind in an indoor environment. \u201cThankfully, we did not build large enough rooms for our exercise classes, so we will be relocating our spin classes to be adjacent to the pool. This will generate more than enough wind for the event.\u201d\nOrganizers of the Americas Cup event are hoping the move inland will increase the popularity of sailing in landlocked states, where sailing as a pastime has been traditionally unpopular.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-1","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}