{"id":423,"date":"2010-04-20T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2010-04-20T05:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:50:21","slug":"entering-the-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Entering the Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The early-morning fog hovers <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-425\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/04\/entering-the-panama-canal\/100_4721-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-425\" title=\"100_4721\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/100_47211-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>over the Atlantic waters of the Panama Canal as The Millennium arrives at the mouth. It&#8217;s 5:45 a.m. Three Panamanian pilots \u2014 three are required because of the size of the ship \u2014 are on board at the breakwaters. The humidity of the Panamanian jungle is oppressive, even at this early hour.<\/p>\n<p>A little over an hour later, right on time, the Millennium enters the first of three Gatun Locks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 7:03 a.m. It&#8217;s obviously going to be a tight squeeze; the ship is so close to the edge of the locks that lines are thrown from shore and attached to mini-electric trains on each side to keep the Millennium from hitting the sides of the locks. <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-426\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/04\/entering-the-panama-canal\/100_4720\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-426\" title=\"100_4720\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/100_4720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>We have a balcony on the &#8220;right&#8221; side of the ship, which is really the left (starboard) side. It&#8217;s the best way to watch the movement through the locks.<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes later, the Millennium is inside the lock, and the water exchange begins.<\/p>\n<p>More later\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early-morning fog hovers over the Atlantic waters of the Panama Canal as The Millennium arrives at the mouth. It&#8217;s 5:45 a.m. Three Panamanian pilots \u2014 three are required because of the size of the ship \u2014 are on board at the breakwaters. The humidity of the Panamanian jungle is oppressive, even at this early&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=423\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Entering the Panama Canal<\/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":[16,31,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}