{"id":4302,"date":"2011-09-18T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2011-09-17T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T23:01:32","slug":"melted-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/melted-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Melted away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8832.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8832.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN8832\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4303 colorbox-4302\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe snow tunnel is no longer &#8211; in the space of 34 hours the temperature went from -2 to +12C (53F). There are massive puddles all over and Ali&#8217;s snow hole has caved in. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8849.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8849.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN8849\" width=\"448\" height=\"157\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4307 colorbox-4302\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe bummer is we didn&#8217;t even get to ski as the track was closed with avalanche risk and it went from snowing and cold to warm and wet overnight. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8840.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8840.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN8840\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4308 colorbox-4302\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSarah did a grand job of 70&#8217;s night with a seventies style buffet of coronation chicken and many salad type dishes. I didn&#8217;t feel that great so let the side down by not getting dressed up and went across to eat and then headed back to bed.  It was a bit sobering when we realised that I was the only person on base born in the 70&#8217;s &#8211; made me feel old for sure &#8211; the rest of the BAS personell were all born in the 80&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>However, everyone else got into the spirit of the event dressing to impress.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8839.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN8839\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4304 colorbox-4302\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRobert the Government Officer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8841.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN8841\" width=\"320\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4305 colorbox-4302\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTommy making use of his mohawk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCN8846.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN8846\" width=\"448\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4306 colorbox-4302\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAli showing off his chest hair and wearing the &#8216;birthday shirt&#8217;. Apparently the shirt has been on base since the military were here. A marines mother sent the shirt as a joke for him to wear on his birthday and for many years after that whom ever&#8217;s birthday it was had to wear it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The snow tunnel is no longer &#8211; in the space of 34 hours the temperature went from -2 to +12C (53F). There are massive puddles all over and Ali&#8217;s snow hole has caved in. The bummer is we didn&#8217;t even get to ski as the track was closed with avalanche risk and it went from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4310,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}