{"id":96,"date":"2008-07-28T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/2008\/07\/28\/post-from-giselle\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T00:37:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T00:37:10","slug":"post-from-giselle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/2008\/07\/28\/post-from-giselle\/","title":{"rendered":"Post from Giselle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post from Giselle have a techical hitch at present  Here is what you would have got last Friday:<\/p>\n<p>David&#8230;. Sailing in Sunshine off the west coast of Ireland with the huge pink spinnaker up. Rebecca insisted I put it up.  Would I have put it up without this insistence?  Just had a good look at Great Skellig.  Steep rocky island about 10 miles west of the coast of county Kerry.  For 600 years the island was an important centre for monastic life for Irish Christian monks.  An Irish Celtic monastery, which is situated almost at the summit of the 230 meter high rock was built in 566 and became a UNESCO world heritage site in 1996.  It is one of Europe&#8217;s better known but least accessible monasteries.<br \/>\nThe Viking sacked the island in the ninth century, inspiring a Skellig monk to write &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Bitter and wild in the wind tonight<br \/>\nTossing the tresses of the sea to white<br \/>\nOn such a night as this I feel the ease<br \/>\nFierce Northmen only course the quiet seas<\/p>\n<p>Off to Castletown bearhaven tonight and then Bantry ready for Rebecca, Camy and Peden&#8217;s return to London on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post from Giselle have a techical hitch at present Here is what you would have got last Friday: David&#8230;. Sailing in Sunshine off the west coast of Ireland with the huge pink spinnaker up. Rebecca insisted I put it up. Would I have put it up without this insistence? Just had a good look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-sea","category-atlantic-leg","tag-sailmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roamingtheoceans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}