{"id":22737,"date":"2014-12-26T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=22737"},"modified":"2014-12-26T01:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T09:00:02","slug":"first-day-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22737","title":{"rendered":"On The First Day After Christmas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#39;re on a cruise ship today &mdash; or if you&#39;ve ever been on a cruise ship the day after Christmas &mdash; chances are you&#39;re happy not to be surrounded by white stuff (unless it&#39;s wakes or sand) and chances are that&#39;s part of the motivation for being on a ship. Chances are, too, that you&#39;re in the Caribbean and, if that&#39;s the case, you have an opportunity to see how locals decorate for Christmas with snow.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s a selection of pictures we&#39;ve taken from some of the warm-weather places we&#39;ve been on the last week of the year&#8230;and one from Royal Caribbean&#39;s horticulturists:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/St.-Maarten-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St. Maarten-2\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22732\" height=\"488\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/St.-Maarten-2.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Vancouver-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vancouver\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22730\" height=\"488\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Vancouver-1.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/St.-Maarten-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22735\" height=\"488\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/St.-Maarten-1.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Punta-Gorda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Punta Gorda\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22734\" height=\"581\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Punta-Gorda.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Nassau-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nassau\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22733\" height=\"621\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Nassau-1.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/St.-Maarten-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22741\" height=\"847\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/St.-Maarten-3.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Frosty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Frosty\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22736\" height=\"583\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Frosty.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Central-Park.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Central Park\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22851\" height=\"690\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Central-Park.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em style=\"font-size: 13px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Today at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsandbows.com\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><em style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>New adventures for Un-Cruisers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/ship\/dawn\/overview\" style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">Norwegian Dawn<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">7 nights<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">February 1, 2015<\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neworleansonline.com\/\" style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">New Orleans<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(return):&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islacozumel.com.mx\/\" style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">Cozumel<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belize.com\/belize-city.html\" style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">Belize<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roatanonline.com\/\" style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">Roatan<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costamaya-mexico.com\/maya\/\" style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">Costa Maya<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">Inside: $359<\/span><br \/>\n\t<strong style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Cost per day: $51<\/strong><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.com\">www.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#39;re on a cruise ship today &mdash; or if you&#39;ve ever been on a cruise ship the day after Christmas &mdash; chances are you&#39;re happy not to be surrounded by white stuff (unless it&#39;s wakes or sand) and chances are that&#39;s part of the motivation for being on a ship. Chances are, too, that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22737\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On The First Day After Christmas&#8230;<\/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":[32,25,31,15],"tags":[1498,315,912,72,35,126,225,26,27],"class_list":["post-22737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-stories","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-dawn","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22737","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=22737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}