{"id":8383,"date":"2011-06-07T01:07:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T08:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2011-06-07T01:07:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T08:07:29","slug":"new-ships-celebrity-silhouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8383","title":{"rendered":"Get the Camera, Here Comes the Ship!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8386\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2011\/06\/new-ships-celebrity-silhouette\/silhouette-328\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8386\" title=\"Silhouette-328\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Silhouette-328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>What is it about new ships? They emerge from a shipyard like some 200,000-ton baby from a womb, and out come the cameras. A baby is born after being carried in the safety of water and a cruise ship is born to carry thousands of people safely on water, yet they have the same attraction for shutterbugs.<\/p>\n<p>The picture you see is Celebrity&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritycruises.com\/plancruise\/ships\/ship.do;jsessionid=0000xc8ln2MsN3mduMtil8N3RVH:12hdebcnj?shipCode=SI\">Silhouette<\/a>, as it backed out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meyerwerft.com\/page.asp?main=0&amp;subs=0&amp;websub=m1s0&amp;lang=e\">Meyer Werft<\/a> shipyard in Germany this week. It is said residents of Papenburg lined up to see cruising&#8217;s newest baby, the fourth ship in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritycruises.com\/home.do\">Celebrity&#8217;s<\/a> five-ship Solstice Class.<\/p>\n<p>While we never use our own actions to explain or justify the actions of others, we&#8217;ve been the &#8220;baby photographers.&#8221; When the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allureoftheseas.com\">Allure of the Seas<\/a> came to North America from Europe last November, we were standing on the top deck of another ship, Navigator of the Seas, watching the newest mega ship&#8217;s arrival in <a href=\"http:\/\/ci.ftlaud.fl.us\/\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In hand we had not one camera but two. Part of it is taking pictures of cruise ships is just something we do. And part of it is that&#8217;s just what cruise ships do to people.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about new ships? They emerge from a shipyard like some 200,000-ton baby from a womb, and out come the cameras. A baby is born after being carried in the safety of water and a cruise ship is born to carry thousands of people safely on water, yet they have the same attraction&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8383\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get the Camera, Here Comes the Ship!<\/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":[16,25,31,19,15],"tags":[203,138,459,86,626,151,627],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-allure-of-the-seas","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-silhouette","tag-cruise-ships","tag-meyer-werft-shipyard","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-shipyards","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","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=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}