{"id":16745,"date":"2013-11-14T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/lindblad-faces-suspicious-crowd\/"},"modified":"2013-11-14T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T02:36:00","slug":"lindblad-faces-suspicious-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/11\/lindblad-faces-suspicious-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindblad faces \u201csuspicious\u201d crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">by Louse Goldsbury, editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiseweekly.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cruise Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At last night\u2019s brochure launch, past passengers confronted the new owners about changes to the old <i>Orion<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the caged animals at Sydney\u2019s Taronga Zoo that caused a commotion at Lindblad Expeditions\u2019 launch of its 2014 Explorations catalogue \u2013 it was loyal fans of the Australian ways of the phased-out Orion Expeditions Cruises.<\/p>\n<p>After an inspiring presentation about the 10 ships\u2019 exotic itineraries, diving program and undersea exploration tools, company founder Sven Lindblad, who flew in from New York, and his Sydney-based son Jeremy were forced to defend the changes to the soon-to-renamed <i>National Geographic Orion<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Some past passengers at the function took the opportunity to ask about the onboard currency, retention of Australian expedition leaders and other alterations.<\/p>\n<p><i>read the full story in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiseweekly.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cruise Weekly<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Louse Goldsbury, editor of Cruise Weekly At last night\u2019s brochure launch, past passengers confronted the new owners about changes to the old Orion. It wasn\u2019t the caged animals at Sydney\u2019s Taronga Zoo that caused a commotion at Lindblad Expeditions\u2019 launch of its 2014 Explorations catalogue \u2013 it was loyal fans of the Australian ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-weekly","category-lindblad-expeditions","category-orion-expedition-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}