{"id":18456,"date":"2013-08-07T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=18456"},"modified":"2013-08-07T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:00:01","slug":"wednesday-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=18456","title":{"rendered":"Three Times a Godmother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unquestionably, there are people who envy or resent the Arison family. It comes with their territory. Wealthy beyond any normal person's means. Owners (or part-owners) of 11 cruise lines under the <\/span>Carnival<\/a> banner. Owners of the NBA's champions for the last two years. High up on the list of Miami's rich and famous.<\/span><\/p>\n

Etcetra.<\/p>\n

So there is bound to be that same anti-Arison sentiment when — in New Orleans<\/a> on November 17 — the family matriarch, Lin, becomes the Godmother of the Carnival <\/a>Sunshine<\/a>. She'll also become the only person to be Godmother of three ships — the \"\"<\/a>previous iteration of the Sunshine (Carnival Destiny) and the Carnival Holiday being her other godchild ships.<\/p>\n

To which we say…good for her!<\/p>\n

Mrs. Arison's late husband, Ted, had an enormous cruising impact that affects all of us who go on ships today. He was part-owner of the cruise line that really introduced the affordable Caribbean cruise. It was called the Norwegian Line<\/a> and Arison left it after six years to found Carnival, which became a corporation that also owns Holland America<\/a>, Cunard<\/a>, Princess<\/a>, Costa<\/a> and half a dozen smaller cruise lines.<\/p>\n

He was a child of wealth and he parlayed it into greater wealth. His son Mickey became the face of Carnival, the world's 169th wealthiest person and the man who signs the paychecks for Lebron James. His mother has been mostly anonymous, except in Miami<\/a>. There she is known as a philanthropist, especially for the arts, which she obviously loves. She has dedicated her life to advancement of the arts for young people and last year President Obama<\/a> awarded her the National Medal.<\/p>\n

With such people of privilege often comes a responsibility to help others. But it's not a given. If there were no wealthy people like this, who would step up to help others, in a myriad of ways. Mrs. Arison made doing so her responsibility.<\/p>\n

When she wasn't giving "berth" to three ships.<\/p>\n

White House photo by Chuck Kennedy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Royal Caribbean Allure of the Seas<\/a>
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tOctober 6, 2013<\/span>
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): Labadee, <\/span>Falmouth<\/a>, <\/span>Cozumel<\/a>
\n\tInside: $749<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $107<\/strong>
\n\twww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unquestionably, there are people who envy or resent the Arison family. It comes with their territory. Wealthy beyond any normal person's means. Owners (or part-owners) of 11 cruise lines under the Carnival banner. Owners of the NBA's champions for the last two years. High up on the list of Miami's rich and famous. Etcetra. So… Continue reading Three Times a Godmother<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[203,137,154,850,912,72,35,453,1319,1320,394,950,951,357,33],"class_list":["post-18456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-allure-of-the-seas","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-sunshine","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-godmothers","tag-lebron-james","tag-lin-arison","tag-miami","tag-miami-heat","tag-mickey-arison","tag-new-orleans","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456","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=18456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}