{"id":743,"date":"2013-07-26T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=743"},"modified":"2013-07-26T13:54:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:54:13","slug":"did-you-know-2013-07-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/did-you-know-2013-07-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know &#8211; 2013-07-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;tonnage&#8221; of a cruise ship does not refer to its weight or displacement, but to its size &#8211; 1 &#8220;ton&#8221; equals 100 cubic feet of enclosed space<\/li>\n<li>The first regularly scheduled transatlantic cruise ship was small enough to fit inside the Grand Lounge of the QE2 and took 14 days to cross the Atlantic<\/li>\n<li>During WWII all of Holland America&#8217;s ocean liners were chartered by the British, Dutch, and U.S. governments, and only 9 vessels survived to return to civilian service<\/li>\n<li>There are more than 2,000 ports of call around the world, but about half of all cruises leave from Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, or Port Canaveral<\/li>\n<li>Ocean liners are built for the open sea and travel point to point (i.e. New York to Southhampton) whereas cruise ships have no final destination and are often a destination in themselves<\/li>\n<li>In July 1840, when the Britannia, the first ship to operate under the Cunard Line name, embarked on a 14-day trans-Atlantic voyage it had a cow on board to supply passengers with fresh milk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;tonnage&#8221; of a cruise ship does not refer to its weight or displacement, but to its size &#8211; 1 &#8220;ton&#8221; equals 100 cubic feet of enclosed space The first regularly scheduled transatlantic cruise ship was small enough to fit inside the Grand Lounge of the QE2 and took 14 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}