{"id":8915,"date":"2011-07-28T01:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T08:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=8915"},"modified":"2011-07-28T01:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T08:12:05","slug":"cruise-ship-minor-accident-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8915","title":{"rendered":"Carnival 'Crash' a Family Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We once had married friends who had a most calamitous incident when taking one of their two cars to leave at the airport because the husband was going to be landing there late at night. They had a car accident. Both of them. Together. Bang-bang. Who hit whom?<\/p>\n

One car was a Mercedes. The other was a BMW. Presumably, the insurance company had a laugh while writing the check for damages.<\/p>\n

This week, two vehicles that cost considerably more than either a Mercedes or BMA had an accident. Both of them. Together. Bang-bang. They’re in the same family. In fact, some say the resemblance is so close that they must be twin sisters.<\/p>\n

One is called Carnival Fantasy. The other is Carnival Imagination. Key Biscayne (Florida) \"\"<\/a>was the site of their little fender-bender, although in the cruise ship world fender-benders are never little. The damage was minimal, relatively speaking, and the way the story goes, the Fantasy backed into the Imagination while docking.<\/p>\n

Fantasy turned 21 this year. Imagination is just 16. Kids nowadays!<\/p>\n

It’s presumed that the parents (Carnival) issued a “stern” warning once the authorities had the young ‘uns blow to make sure they weren’t over the limit. This was one accident that can’t be blamed on the 16-year-old!<\/p>\n

Oh, and what about our friends from the Mercedes-BMW accident? They’re no longer married.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We once had married friends who had a most calamitous incident when taking one of their two cars to leave at the airport because the husband was going to be landing there late at night. They had a car accident. Both of them. Together. Bang-bang. Who hit whom? One car was a Mercedes. The other… Continue reading Carnival 'Crash' a Family Affair<\/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":[154,200,681,86,428],"class_list":["post-8915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-fantasy","tag-carnival-imagination","tag-cruise-ships","tag-ship-accidents","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915","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=8915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}