{"id":21891,"date":"2014-09-26T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=21891"},"modified":"2014-09-26T01:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T08:00:02","slug":"21891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=21891","title":{"rendered":"The &#039;Allure&#039; Of DreamWorks&#039; Shrek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When reflecting on 2014, come December, it just may be our &#8220;Year of Shrek.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For people who used to think the word was simply a misspelled synonym for &#8220;scream&#8221; \u2014 as in &#8220;shriek&#8221; \u2014having two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shrek.com\/?gclid=CPegupj_hqICFQmjiQodN29UVA\">Shrek<\/a> experiences in the same year was at least unusual, and at most unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>But we did.<\/p>\n<p>The first was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allureoftheseas.com\">Allure of the Seas<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/home.do\">Royal Caribbean<\/a> has a promotional deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Shrek-TUTS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21912\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Shrek-TUTS.jpg\" alt=\"Shrek-TUTS\" width=\"350\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamworksanimation.com\">DreamWorks<\/a>, which has among its stable of characters Shrek and Fiona. On the Allure, both were part of the ship&#8217;s parade (as opposed to the parade of ships), and we were among the spectators, camera in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The movie of the same name was available for passengers to watch. We&#8217;d already seen it.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks after disembarking, there we were again. Or there Shrek was again. This time, it was in <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.ca\/\">Vancouver&#8217;s<\/a> Stanley Park, at <a href=\"http:\/\/tuts.ca\/\">Theatre Under The Stars<\/a>, where a cast of thousands (okay, dozens) did a stage adaptation of the movie. Yes, Shrek, The Musical.<\/p>\n<p>For this occasion, we had company. It was family time and family included three grandchildren. That was the reason for going, wasn&#8217;t it? Shrek is for kids. Yet a funny thing happened that night in the park.<\/p>\n<p>The kids loved it, but the adults loved it more!<\/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 latest in cruise news<\/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.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do;jsessionid=0000TfewzP3Y_EmXrNvPFZTfRXm:13hldil87?br=R&amp;shipClassCode=RD&amp;shipCode=BR\">Royal Caribbean Brilliance of the Seas<br \/>\n<\/a>4 nights<br \/>\nNovember 13, 2014<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampagov.net\/\">Tampa<\/a> (return): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islacozumel.com.mx\/\">Cozumel<br \/>\n<\/a>Inside: $290<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cost per day: $72<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\">www.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When reflecting on 2014, come December, it just may be our &#8220;Year of Shrek.&#8221; For people who used to think the word was simply a misspelled synonym for &#8220;scream&#8221; \u2014 as in &#8220;shriek&#8221; \u2014having two Shrek experiences in the same year was at least unusual, and at most unthinkable. But we did. The first was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=21891\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#039;Allure&#039; Of DreamWorks&#039; Shrek<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,31,36,19,15],"tags":[203,1073,137,912,72,35,452,26,27,33,1733,1585,1734,765],"class_list":["post-21891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-allure-of-the-seas","tag-brilliance-of-the-seas","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-dreamworks","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-shrek","tag-stanley-park","tag-theatre-under-the-stars","tag-vancouver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21891","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=21891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21891\/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=21891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}