{"id":14402,"date":"2012-09-18T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=14402"},"modified":"2012-09-18T01:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T08:00:29","slug":"tuesday-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=14402","title":{"rendered":"Cruising Loves The Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Will the world ever get enough of The Beatles?<\/p>\n<p>We used to think it was just our generation, which grew up on the seven years when the Beatles did <em>&quot;Get Together.&quot;<\/em> It would appear, however, that <em>The Long And Winding Road<\/em> is multi-generational for its occupants.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#39;t, there wouldn&#39;t be a theatre built for <em>Love<\/em> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegasnevada.gov\/\">Las Vegas<\/a>, where the music of The Beatles plays twice daily.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#39;t, today&#39;s teenagers wouldn&#39;t know the lyrics of many more Beatles songs than those two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2012\/09\/tuesday-11\/beatles-cruise\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14431\" height=\"292\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Beatles-cruise.jpg\" title=\"Beatles Tribute Cruise\" width=\"289\" \/><\/a>If it weren&#39;t, you wouldn&#39;t see things like <em>Beatles Tribute Cruises<\/em>, on the biggest ship in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The latest incarnation of the cruise leaves <a href=\"http:\/\/ci.ftlaud.fl.us\/\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a> on March 3. It&#39;s on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allureoftheseas.com\">Allure of the Seas<\/a>, which shares the &quot;biggest ship&quot; bragging rights with its sister the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oasisoftheseas.com\">Oasis<\/a>, which was the ship of choice for the <em>2012 Beatles Tribute Cruise<\/em>. It costs almost $1,500 to ride around the Caribbean for a week, listening to people with Beatles connections talk and sing.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 Beatles connections are Mark Hudson, once a producer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringostarr.com\/index\/home\/\">Ringo Starr<\/a>; Billy J. Kramer, once a well-known singer who covered Beatles songs; Joey Molland, once a singer for <em>Badfinger<\/em>, once a group on the Beatles label; and Revolution, still a Beatles tribute band.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds like a stretch, maybe it is. But after watching the closing ceremonies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/\">Olympic Games<\/a>, billed as a tribute to British music, one thing was obvious from the number of Beatles songs that were performed or played.<\/p>\n<p>This act is a long way from being over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/ships\/carnival_conquest\/default.aspx?shipCode=CQ\">Carnival Conquest<\/a><br \/>\n\t7 nights<br \/>\n\tDecember 16, 2012<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neworleansonline.com\/\">New Orleans<\/a> (return): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montego-bay-jamaica.com\/\">Montego Bay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caymanislands.ky\/\">Grand Cayman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islacozumel.com.mx\/\">Cozumel<\/a><br \/>\n\tInside: $439<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong>Cost per day: $62<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/\">www.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Will the world ever get enough of The Beatles? We used to think it was just our generation, which grew up on the seven years when the Beatles did &quot;Get Together.&quot; It would appear, however, that The Long And Winding Road is multi-generational for its occupants. If it weren&#39;t, there wouldn&#39;t be a theatre&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=14402\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruising Loves The Beatles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[203,488,137,154,805,204,86,35,956,357,53,33,625,321,471],"class_list":["post-14402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-allure-of-the-seas","tag-beatles","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-conquest","tag-cruise-ship-entertainment","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-london-olympics","tag-new-orleans","tag-oasis-of-the-seas","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-the-beatles","tag-theme-cruises","tag-tribute-acts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}