{"id":860,"date":"2012-12-19T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/?p=860"},"modified":"2020-07-21T19:17:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:17:26","slug":"a-dinghy-for-the-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"A Dinghy for the Drake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of interest brewing about our October expedition, with most people not quite getting the idea. To dispel some of the confusion&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, it&#8217;s a private, self-funded expedition whose primary goal is that we have a holiday&#8230;doing some research along the way. \u00c2&nbsp;Isn&#8217;t that how everybody relaxes?<\/li>\n<li>Yes, we really are going to be as close to carbon-neutral as you can get for flying half way around the world &#8211; we are pulling sleds with wind and man-power (and woman power).<\/li>\n<li>Yes, we will be camping. \u00c2&nbsp;Refer to my comments about how everyone relaxes.<\/li>\n<li>No, we are not going on a cruise ship &#8211; we are using the wind and taking a yacht down to the ice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For your interest and edification, <a title=\"Golden Fleece specifications\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goldenfleecexp.co.fk\/english\/gf_specs_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here is some info about the Golden Fleece<\/a>, the yacht we will be using.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_942\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mountaininterval.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-942\" class=\"wp-image-942 size-full\" title=\"1305-trollhul-golden-fleece_RJ\" src=\"https:\/\/wildmedic.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1305-trollhul-golden-fleece_RJ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Fleece at South Georgia. Photo by Ryan Holiday, mountaininterval.org<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of interest brewing about our October expedition, with most people not quite getting the idea. To dispel some of the confusion&#8230; Yes, it&#8217;s a private, self-funded expedition whose primary goal is that we have a holiday&#8230;doing some research along the way. \u00c2&nbsp;Isn&#8217;t that how everybody relaxes? Yes, we really are going to be as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-snow-hill-island-expedition","category-antarctica","category-preparation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}