{"id":9591,"date":"2025-11-16T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9591"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:57:15","slug":"the-naked-sailor","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/product\/the-naked-sailor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Naked Sailor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfc6 2025 BIBA\u00aeNon-Fiction: Adventure Memoir Winner!<\/p>\n<p>The Naked Sailor is a light-hearted memoir of a naive retiree enticed off to sea&#8230;&#8221;Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s mostly Auto Pilot&#8221;. Who knew there were pirates in paradise, earthquake tsunamis that rolled over your boat, or a new typhoon every two weeks? Who knew a jellyfish could kill you in thirty seconds or three-foot bats lived in Busuanga? Add three cranky shipmates, the CIA, a bar girl surprise, and a few jokers not playing with a full deck and you&#8217;ll agree, from the sins of Bangkok to the Great Wall of China&#8230;this trip is not your ordinary empty nester vacation. Fears and phobias nearly do him in, until he discovers &#8216;That something magical&#8217;, Call of the Sea. It is a story of introspection and self-discovery, of friendship and family. And it&#8217;s what happens when you are floating naked, contemplating the heavens above and the perils below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfc6 2025 BIBA\u00aeNon-Fiction: Adventure Memoir Winner! The Naked Sailor is a light-hearted memoir of a naive retiree enticed off to sea&#8230;&#8221;Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s mostly Auto Pilot&#8221;. Who knew there were pirates in paradise, earthquake tsunamis that rolled over your boat, or a new typhoon every two weeks? Who knew a jellyfish could kill you in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10051,"template":"","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_4417260021_4417260021":"","facebook_2752729431657742_150450788658353":"","facebook_2752729431657742_17841415386502662":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending"},"class_list":["post-9591","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-2025-winners","product_cat-adventure-memoir","product_cat-biba-winners","product_tag-norman-coutts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}