{"id":29597,"date":"2020-02-21T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29597"},"modified":"2020-02-21T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:19:13","slug":"cruisin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29597","title":{"rendered":"Cruisin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For five nights I&#8217;ve been on a Disney Cruise of the Caribbean during a Winter break. I was blissfully ignorant of our plans or what we might do or where we would go. I was too preoccupied watching Donald Trump and the Democrats dance around a deep pit I hoped would not become America&#8217;s grave. So, landing in Florida and being freed from the news and the Internet for a week was a blessing. <\/p>\n<p>In fact I slept well, meaning six hours or more, every night of the cruise. I&#8217;m not sure whether the absence of Trump News or cellphone gazing late at night was the chief reason for this. I slept well again back in Duluth last night leaving it till this morning to do some catching up.<\/p>\n<p>I was so detached from the planning that I only paid attention to the itinerary after we boarded Disney&#8217;s Magic. Its the sister ship of the Wonder that I think we sailed on for a Disney trip to Alaska with our grandsons five years ago. I didn&#8217;t even know until the day before we arrived that our first stop was the Cayman Islands. We snorkeled there, had a fine lunch and  returned to our ship. I only knew that the Caymans were something of an off shore tax evasion site. Just now I googled it and discovered that it was a British possession. <\/p>\n<p>We all got a little sun burned, ate too much, enjoyed family entertainment and forgot that Donald Trump is doing nothing to slow down the Caribbean heat sink which is fueling stronger hurricanes. I shared lots of pictures this morning on Facebook which I won&#8217;t share here because my family deserves a little anonymity even as I continue to streak nakedly across the internet. <\/p>\n<p>I will however show you a string of pictures I took in Grand Cayman&#8217;s capitol, Georgetown, of a traffic cop who enjoyed entertaining the pedestrians he shepherded across the closest thing to a busy intersection in the city.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49565432898_2ec28f489e_c_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49566171557_8ab6cc3d40_c_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49565941876_bc0f96003e_c_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49565438193_e9eb7dab3b_c_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s one more from the restaurant we dined at overlooking the spot where we snorkeled over the wreck of a ship that blew up when its cargo of dried rice got drenched in a storm and the rice puffed up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49565946056_8d55dc46fe_c_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For five nights I&#8217;ve been on a Disney Cruise of the Caribbean during a Winter break. I was blissfully ignorant of our plans or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29601,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29597\/revisions\/29601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}