{"id":3385,"date":"2010-01-18T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2010-12-13T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:47:11","slug":"royal-caribbean-cruise-lines-docks-cruise-ship-for-fun-and-sun-in-stricken-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/01\/18\/royal-caribbean-cruise-lines-docks-cruise-ship-for-fun-and-sun-in-stricken-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines Docks Ship for Fun and Sun in Stricken Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most disgusting company on the face of the planet has made itself known today: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/01\/18\/cruise-ship-docks-at.html\">docked the cruise ship Independence of the Seas<\/a> at a private beach in Haiti which is fenced off from the rest of the stricken nation, for some fun and sun along the beach.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/jan\/17\/cruise-ships-haiti-earthquake\">resort beach is about sixty miles from the devastation<\/a> of Haiti&#8217;s earthquake zone and is surrounded by tall fences and armed guards.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the cruise line company has excused its shocking act by saying that it delivered some pallets of relief supplies.\u00a0 So, with millions of people injured, two hundred thousand dead, everything lying in heaps of rubble, this Royal Caribbean company thinks it can dock its ship for fun and NOT pick up survivors or provide beds and rooms for survivors or transportation for survivors.\u00a0 What Royal Caribbean should be doing is running its ships back and forth to ferry people to hospitals on other islands.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what a responsible company with real sailors in its employ would be doing.\u00a0 How could a ship&#8217;s captain or crew live with itself after behaving in such a monstrous fashion?\u00a0 How could the passengers not mutiny?\u00a0 What are the names of the people on board this ship?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s find out and post them on the web.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ship photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brostad\/2433904850\/\"><em>Bernt Rostad<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most disgusting company on the face of the planet has made itself known today: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has docked the cruise ship Independence of the Seas at a private beach in Haiti which is fenced off from the rest of the stricken nation, for some fun and sun along the beach.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,163],"tags":[862,861,884,886],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","tag-earthquake","tag-haiti","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-ship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}