{"id":18023,"date":"2013-12-15T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-costa-concordia-catastrophe-nothing-to-giglio-about\/"},"modified":"2013-12-15T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T13:54:00","slug":"struth-costa-concordia-catastrophe-nothing-to-giglio-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/12\/struth-costa-concordia-catastrophe-nothing-to-giglio-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Costa Concordia catastrophe nothing to Giglio about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-A8tleMwxV20\/Uq20gV_dMlI\/AAAAAAAAj6Q\/_bhbj6v4TA4\/s1600\/Ship%2BCosta%2BConcordia%2BJan%2B2012.Insurance%2BGazette-748852.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-A8tleMwxV20\/Uq20gV_dMlI\/AAAAAAAAj6Q\/_bhbj6v4TA4\/s320\/Ship%2BCosta%2BConcordia%2BJan%2B2012.Insurance%2BGazette-748852.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<b><span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<div link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\" lang=\"EN-AU\">\n<div>\n<p><b><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>In his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says it&#8217;s been revealed that the ill-fated cruise liner Costa Concordia, that sank after hitting a rock off the Tuscan island of Giglio in January last year, appeared to have a knack for attracting the wrong kind of publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Because when a parish priest in a small Italian town told parishioners a few years before the sinking that he was going on a &#8220;spiritual retreat to reflect on his vows and to meditate and pray,&#8221; it was not totally what he had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>And he would have got away with it had it not been for a young niece excitedly telling the world by Facebook what a wonderful week her whole family &#8220;including Uncle (name)&#8221; was having aboard the Costa Concordia.<\/p>\n<p>  Concordia means &#8220;continuing harmony, unity and peace&#8221; but parishioners back home were in anything but &#8220;concordia mood&#8221; when they read the niece&#8217;s Facebook entry, one commenting to the priest&#8217;s local paper: &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit difficult to understand how he was taking a spiritual retreat aboard a cruise ship with 4000 party-goers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Image: Insurance Gazette)<i><span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says it&#8217;s been revealed that the ill-fated cruise liner Costa Concordia, that sank after hitting a rock off the Tuscan island of Giglio in January last year, appeared to have a knack for attracting the wrong kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023","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=18023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}