{"id":19873,"date":"2014-01-23T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=19873"},"modified":"2014-01-23T01:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T09:00:46","slug":"thursday-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=19873","title":{"rendered":"Who's Responsible For Anything Any More?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somewhere, a student in 7th grade gets bad marks, and the parents blame the teacher. On some 18th green, a golfer misses a three-foot putt and rants about needing a new putter. A teenager drives drunk, four people are killed and his defense is that he suffers from "affluenza" — a new word that is destined to make its way into dictionaries in place of "poor little rich kids.".<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is truly an age of non-responsibility. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here's one from a cruise ship…<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman becomes intoxicated, falls overboard and sues the cruise line, which happens to be Carnival<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her lawyers claim the woman was coaxed into excessive drinking with casino coupons from the bartender. Later she fell seven stories, hit a lifeboat and was severely injured. She is seeking punitive damages for "negligence and the intentional infliction of emotional distress."<\/span><\/p>\n

You be the judge.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Grand Princess<\/a>
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tSeptember 14, 2014 <\/span>
\n\tSeattle<\/a> (return): <\/span>Ketchikan<\/a>, <\/span>Tracy Arm<\/a>, <\/span>Juneau<\/a>, <\/span>Skagway<\/a>, <\/span>Victoria<\/a>
\n\tInside: $598<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $85<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somewhere, a student in 7th grade gets bad marks, and the parents blame the teacher. On some 18th green, a golfer misses a three-foot putt and rants about needing a new putter. A teenager drives drunk, four people are killed and his defense is that he suffers from "affluenza" — a new word that is… Continue reading Who's Responsible For Anything Any More?<\/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":[45,154,912,72,1028,35,561,703],"class_list":["post-19873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-alaska","tag-carnival","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-lawsuits","tag-cruises","tag-drinking-on-ships","tag-grand-princess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873","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=19873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}