{"id":21706,"date":"2014-09-03T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=21706"},"modified":"2014-09-03T01:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T08:00:30","slug":"wednesday-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=21706","title":{"rendered":"Reading The Writings Of Cruising\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like you, we&#8217;re always on the prowl to read something interesting\u2026especially if it&#8217;s about cruising. To that end, when we find the writings of others who we think might appeal to you, we pass it along.<\/p>\n<p>Today is one of those days.<\/p>\n<p>During our most recent cruise, we spent a few evenings enjoying the company of Tom Stieghorst, who writes regularly for <i>Travel Weekly<\/i> and \u2014 more importantly \u2014 is the father of two teenage daughters. They&#8217;re the subject of a clever column he wrote about taking his family on a cruise, and you can find it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/Cruise-Travel\/Insights\/When-Facebook-gives-way-to-face-time\/\">www.travelweekly.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On our previous cruise, we visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.falmouthjamaica.org\/\">Falmouth<\/a>, Jamaica for the first time and a column in the <i>Jamaica Observer<\/i> by Michael Burke caught our eye this week. It&#8217;s worth reading even if you&#8217;re not interested in cruising, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/columns\/The-presence-of-an-absence_17434558\">www.jamaicaobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully you&#8217;ll find them as interesting and\/or entertaining as we did.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Today at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsandbows.com\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: The\u00a0Norwegian purchase<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oasisoftheseas.com\">Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas<br \/>\n<\/a>5 nights<br \/>\nOctober 27, 2014<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortlauderdale.gov\/\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nassauparadiseisland.com\/\">Nassau<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islacozumel.com.mx\/\">Cozumel<br \/>\n<\/a>Balcony: $554<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cost per day: $110<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\">www.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like you, we&#8217;re always on the prowl to read something interesting\u2026especially if it&#8217;s about cruising. To that end, when we find the writings of others who we think might appeal to you, we pass it along. Today is one of those days. During our most recent cruise, we spent a few evenings enjoying the company&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=21706\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading The Writings Of Cruising\u00a0<\/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":[32,25,36,15],"tags":[137,912,72,1020,1420,35,645,461,1711,1712,53,26,27,33,1713,1120],"class_list":["post-21706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-writers","tag-cruise-writing","tag-cruises","tag-falmouth","tag-jamaica","tag-jamaica-observer","tag-michael-burke","tag-oasis-of-the-seas","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-tom-stieghorst","tag-travel-weekly","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706","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=21706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}