{"id":5637,"date":"2010-12-22T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2010-12-22T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T09:02:09","slug":"santa-barbara-cruise-ship-sapphire-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=5637","title":{"rendered":"Sapphire no Jewel in Santa Barbara?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5674\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/12\/santa-barbara-cruise-ship-sapphire-princess\/sapphire-3-620\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5674\" title=\"Sapphire-3-620\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Sapphire-3-620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a>Admittedly, we know Santa Claus better than we know Santa Barbara. Been there once. Had a great dinner, saw a great concert. It seemed like a nice place, and it probably is a nice place, populated with nice people.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is getting a little heat from cruisers.<\/p>\n<p>On a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santabarbaraview.com\/\">Santa Barbara View<\/a>, dedicated to &#8220;informed opinion writing&#8221; by authors who seem to be without names, the following informed opinion was written: &#8220;Weather permitting, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\">Princess Cruise Line\u2019s<\/a> 2,300 passenger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/learn\/ships\/sa\/index.html\">Sapphire Princess<\/a> is scheduled to arrive\u00a0 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santabarbaraca.gov\/\">Santa Barbara<\/a> today [Sunday]. A record number, seven cruise ships are scheduled to bring their passengers and pollutants to Santa Barbara in 2011.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow! Passengers and pollutants?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what most of the comments on the website since Sunday implied: &#8220;Talk about biting the hand that feeds you&#8221;\u2026Pollutants? Really?&#8221;\u2026&#8221;2000 passengers with not much to do except shop and visit the central coast wine country um, um um, um, UM. Take the money and run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the Sapphire Princess came and went, presumably with all of its passengers \u2014 oh no, there were 3,700 of them \u2014 and some of its pollutants, here&#8217;s the kicker in the story:<\/p>\n<p>At Santa Barbara, ships are moored off shore. The passengers are taken ashore on tender boats.<\/p>\n<p>Pollutants? Really?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly, we know Santa Claus better than we know Santa Barbara. Been there once. Had a great dinner, saw a great concert. It seemed like a nice place, and it probably is a nice place, populated with nice people. One of them is getting a little heat from cruisers. On a website called Santa Barbara&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=5637\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sapphire no Jewel in Santa Barbara?<\/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":[25,31,19,15],"tags":[51,86,35,64,446,65],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-princess-cruise","tag-santa-barbara","tag-sapphire-princess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","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=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}