{"id":26560,"date":"2015-12-23T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26560"},"modified":"2015-12-23T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:00:50","slug":"wednesday-146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26560","title":{"rendered":"Canned Applause For Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"

The record will show that in Monday Night Footbal<\/a>l this week, the winners were the Detroit Lions<\/a>. The disappointing Lions went into New Orleans and beat the equally disappointing Saints<\/a> 35-27.<\/p>\n

But the Lions weren\u2019t the only winners, thanks to Carnival Cruise Line<\/a>, which saw to it that a lot of New Orleans<\/a> people did not go away as empty-handed as their Saints.<\/p>\n

As the local football team\u2019s \u201cofficial cruise line\u201d Carnival will provide more than 75,000 meals to hungry families and\/or homeless people in the Louisiana mecca during the<\/p>\n

\"Volunteers<\/a>
Volunteers from the Second Harvest Food Bank work on world’s largest Carnival cruise ship made of cans. (Photo by Peter G. Forest)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

holiday season, in a joint initiative. It didn\u2019t happen overnight \u2014 neither did MNF\u2019s win and loss for the NFL teams \u2014 and it involved students from New Orleans-area schools. Carnival and the Saints provided the incentives (from pizza parties to autographed footballs free cruises for the schools that collected the most cans of food).<\/p>\n

Monday night was the celebration, at half-time.<\/p>\n

To mark it, Carnival volunteers created \u201cthe world\u2019s largest cruise ship built of canned food.\u201d The 17,000 cans of food were part of the haul that will go to the Second Harvest Food Bank in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n

There are currently two Carnival ships based in New Orleans \u2014 the Dream<\/a> and the Elation<\/a> \u2014\u00a0 <\/span>with the Triumph<\/a> arriving in the spring to replace the smaller Elation. So the cruise line has a vested interest in being the good corporate citizen.\u00a0At Christmas, many people in The Big Easy are grateful for that.<\/p>\n

In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n

\u2022 Disney drops Greece, Turkey from 2016 Mediterranean cruises
\n\u2022\u00a0Grounding damages Windstar’s Star Pride in Panama; cruise canceled
\n\u2022\u00a0Carnival Corporation to use 100 per cent cage-free eggs on ships<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>Diana Ross on the Carnival Breeze<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nCarnival Inspiration
\n<\/a>4 nights
\nFebruary 29, 2016
\nLos Angeles<\/a> (return): Catalina Island<\/a>, Ensenada
\n<\/a>Inside: $179
\nCost per day: $44<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The record will show that in Monday Night Football this week, the winners were the Detroit Lions. The disappointing Lions went into New Orleans and beat the equally disappointing Saints 35-27. But the Lions weren\u2019t the only winners, thanks to Carnival Cruise Line, which saw to it that a lot of New Orleans people did… Continue reading Canned Applause For Carnival<\/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":[16,32,25,31,15],"tags":[154,442,647,912,72,819,35,2170,2171,1465,1455,1414,26,27,1141],"class_list":["post-26560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-inspiration","tag-carnival-triumph","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-detroit-lions","tag-food-banks","tag-monday-night-football","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfl","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-west-coast-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26560","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=26560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}