{"id":516,"date":"2018-10-18T02:56:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T02:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/?p=516"},"modified":"2018-10-18T02:56:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T02:56:47","slug":"tony-vaka-tonga-sailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Tony Vaka &#8211; Tonga &#8211; Sailor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My coach Steve basically put me on the boat and pushed me out. Zero sailing knowledge. I mastered it in 30 minutes but still had a lot to learn.<\/p>\n<p>I like the feeling of freedom, the sound of no engine and no petrol smells when sailing.<\/p>\n<p>I like competing here because I am learning so much from other sailors. Everybody gives you little bits and pieces of information and I have to put it together to sail well.<\/p>\n<p>Inclusion means fair to me.<\/p>\n<p>I will remember the happy people and the light winds when I return to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>If I could invite anyone in the world to sail with me it would be Russell Coutts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-12.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-517 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-12-e1539831295555-300x224.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-12-e1539831295555-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-12-e1539831295555-768x574.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image-12-e1539831295555-1024x765.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My coach Steve basically put me on the boat and pushed me out. Zero sailing knowledge. I mastered it in 30 minutes but still had a lot to learn. I like the feeling of freedom, the sound of no engine and no petrol smells when sailing. I like competing here because I am learning so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/?p=516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tony Vaka &#8211; Tonga &#8211; Sailor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}