{"id":14,"date":"2016-05-10T01:23:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T01:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2019-10-03T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T21:12:10","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1267\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1267\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Neil-crossing-Baltic.gif?resize=1024%2C750\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Neil-crossing-Baltic.gif?resize=1024%2C750&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Neil-crossing-Baltic.gif?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Neil-crossing-Baltic.gif?resize=768%2C562&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">My name is Neil. I&#8217;m the owner of Arcturus. Originally from London, I&#8217;ve lived in California for more than 30 years. Perhaps because I&#8217;m a mid-life convert to sailing, I&#8217;m trying desperately to make up for lost time. I plan to spend every summer aboard this wonderful boat. \u00a0And I&#8217;ll be documenting it here.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Santa Monica, California.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Monica, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7wHME-e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18,"url":"https:\/\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/?page_id=18","url_meta":{"origin":14,"position":0},"title":"About This Site","author":"Becoming Salty","date":"May 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This site documents the travels of Arcturus, a 1966 Allied Seabreeze. A boat I bought\u00a0sight unseen in the Fall of 2015 as she lay on the hard in Vasteras, Sweden. 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