{"id":19664,"date":"2020-12-11T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=19664"},"modified":"2020-12-11T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:20:27","slug":"tgif-weekly-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2020\/12\/tgif-weekly-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIF: weekly recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have some photos, but I have just watched the weekly recap of VendeeGlobe 2020 and nothing I have compares &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SO, even if you do not sail or know about sailing &#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#05 - Weekly Recap\" width=\"658\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-RoqAf_QA7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So much science, athleticism, technical knowledge, seamanship extraordinaire \u2026 I used to follow US sports, not for some years \u2026 and now, the idea of following &#8220;balls&#8221; and the absolutely childish behavior in US sport\u2026 Vendee Globe is above and beyond any sport that I have ever followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have come to love all of the skippers and have also looked at their sponsors.&nbsp; Many of the skippers are sponsored by charitable organizations (detail in future posts, hopefully!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From somewhere in the video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who finishes the Vendee Globe returns a different person&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will add &#8230; if you follow the Vendee Globe, you WILL return a different person.  I am already &#8230; not quite half way through &#8230; a different person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope a better person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope a more civil, a more compassionate, a more respectful person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some photos, but I have just watched the weekly recap of VendeeGlobe 2020 and nothing I have compares &#8230; SO, even if you do not sail or know about sailing &#8230; So much science, athleticism, technical knowledge, seamanship extraordinaire \u2026 I used to follow US sports, not for some years \u2026 and now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19667,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664\/revisions\/19667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}