{"id":12322,"date":"2018-01-05T21:52:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12322"},"modified":"2018-01-05T21:52:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:52:12","slug":"must-not-spend-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12322","title":{"rendered":"Must. Not. Spend. More. Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a dingy before I hit my teens.<\/p>\n<p>It was an 8&#8242; GRP; I used her on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, in the summers, until I left home.<\/p>\n<p>She looked a lot like this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12324\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12324\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dingy-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Dingy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dingy.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dingy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dingy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dingy-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dingy-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dingy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Years later, no longer in my teens, I learned to sail.<\/p>\n<p>I learned serious racing and blue-water sailing in a 36&#8242; yacht, a Sigma:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12325\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12325\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sigma1.jpg\" alt=\"Sigma 36\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sigma1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sigma1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sigma1-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sigma1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sigma 36<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I loved the Sigma.<\/p>\n<p>Stripped down, as you&#8217;d expect a racer to be, she was fast, nimble, responsive; everything a serious racing yacht should be.<\/p>\n<p>They say you should never go back to an old flame.<\/p>\n<p>But are they always right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a dingy before I hit my teens. It was an 8&#8242; GRP; I used her on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}