{"id":2161,"date":"2016-03-04T10:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T08:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2016-04-16T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T08:55:20","slug":"occ-award-of-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/?p=2161","title":{"rendered":"OCC Award of Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2162\" src=\"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image.gif\" alt=\"image\" width=\"156\" height=\"108\" \/>Amongst everything else going on, we received a lovely email saying we have been awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceancruisingclub.org\/component\/content\/article.html?layout=edit&#038;id=2722\">Award of Merit<\/a> from the Ocean Cruising Club shared with others for helping out in Vanuatu after Cyclone Pam last year.<\/p>\n<p>We are very humbled, we honestly don&#8217;t expect this sort of thing. To us this award is received on behalf of the many of you who gave generously and did so much for the people of Vanuatu. To have stood in front of those people in need who couldn&#8217;t quite believe their eyes and say &#8220;These are gifts from people all around the world who care&#8221; was a moving experience we shall never forget.<\/p>\n<p>In turn we would also like to thank and praise the Ocean Cruising Club who did such a wonderful job in sharing information, rallying the media and encouraging fellow yachts, who similarly came to help.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Tom and Susie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst everything else going on, we received a lovely email saying we have been awarded the Award of Merit from the Ocean Cruising Club shared with others for helping out in Vanuatu after Cyclone Pam last year. We are very humbled, we honestly don&#8217;t expect this sort of thing. To us this award is received&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ocean-cruising-club"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}