{"id":2663,"date":"2009-12-21T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2009-12-21T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:53:27","slug":"laura-dekker-found-on-caribbean-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/laura-dekker-found-on-caribbean-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Dekker found on Caribbean island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/laura-dekker-caribbean-island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2664\" title=\"Laura Dekker found on Caribbean island\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/laura-dekker-caribbean-island-219x219.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Dekker found on Caribbean island\" width=\"219\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/laura-dekker-caribbean-island-219x219.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/laura-dekker-caribbean-island.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>Laura Dekker, the 14-year-old Dutch girl who was prevented from sailing solo around the world, has been found on a Caribbean island.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laura Dekker disappeared from her father&#8217;s home three days ago, but now Dutch police say she has been found &#8220;safe and well&#8221; on the Dutch Antilles island of St Maarten.<\/p>\n<p>Utrecht police spokesman Bernhard Jens said the girl had been recognised by a woman living on the island who had been alerted to her disappearance by media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Dekker, who is aiming to be the youngest person to sail solo around the world, made the headlines earlier this year when a Dutch court blocked her attempt to go ahead with the record.<\/p>\n<p>Following the court ruling, she was placed under state supervision with her father until her school year ends in July 2010. The 14-year-old is an experienced sailor and had her first yacht by the age of six and began sailing solo when she was just ten.<\/p>\n<p>The record she wishes to attempt is currently held by Mike Perham, 17, a British sailor. He tackled 50ft waves and gale force winds during the nine months it took him to circumnavigate the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Dekker, the 14-year-old Dutch girl who was prevented from sailing solo around the world, has been found on a Caribbean island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118],"tags":[3567,432,3561,3564,3563,3568],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","tag-caribbean-island-laura-dekker","tag-caribbean-islands","tag-laura-dekker","tag-laura-dekker-caribbean-island","tag-laura-dekker-found","tag-laura-dekker-mike-perham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}