{"id":2,"date":"2012-03-05T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-05-29T12:54:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T12:54:22","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pretty good obit. Minor mistatement about FPI. My dad founded FPI. Bill had very little to with it. Bill joined FPI a year or so after it was founded. Pink and I had nothing to do with it. I was only 16 and Pink still lived in New York State. Bill worked for Commercial Solvent out of Chicgo where he and Lynn lived for about after a year after their marriage. My Dad convinced him to come work for him. Bill may have had something to do with putting my Dad in contact with the former owner of FPI. \u00a0However, all\u00a0that is not really important because once Bill joined FPI he made a huge contribution in growing the company and played a leadership role as my Dad got older. As for his early\u00a0Star\u00a0sailing exploits he\u00a0reallly got serious about it at Cuba Lake outside of Olean NY. after graduating from Colorado A and M. He refurbished an old wooden hull star from the 1930s and raced it for several years until he\u00a0bought an updated one after he moved to Colorado.\u00a0Immediately after the war\u00a0he did some sailboat racing\u00a0in Barnniget Bay near Bayhead\u00a0NJ. But that\u00a0did not involve\u00a0Star boats.\u00a0I remember one night race in which he as a skipper of an ocean\u00a0going two masted boat. His car\u00a0in those days was a model A Ford which he painted blue to attract the girls. We\u00a0used go on joy rides\u00a0together in the summer at the beach. That was a lot of fun for a 6 – 7 year old kid.\u00a0In those days he was a terrific swimmer and often went swimming with the local life guards. When he was not Star racing on Cuba Lake in the summer he was ice boating in the winter. He built his own ice boat and often took his scared little brother on fast runs down the lake. Of course in the winter he skiied at local ski areas in the Allegany Mountains of Western NY and PA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pretty good obit. Minor mistatement about FPI. My dad founded FPI. Bill had very little to with it. Bill joined FPI a year or so after it was founded. Pink and I had nothing to do with it. I was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}