{"id":3461,"date":"2012-04-22T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2012-04-22T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:56:00","slug":"testing-water-on-sydney-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/04\/testing-water-on-sydney-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing water on Sydney cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/resources3.news.com.au\/images\/2012\/04\/13\/1226325\/854891-escape-cruises.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/resources3.news.com.au\/images\/2012\/04\/13\/1226325\/854891-escape-cruises.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>IT IS cruising&#8217;s equivalent of sticking a big toe in the water &#8211; a sampler to see if life on the water is right for you.<\/p>\n<p>Preparing to board my cruise ship on Sydney Harbour on a clear autumn afternoon, all the good things about cruising come to mind: unpack once, water views everywhere, sail-away party, interesting stops, spectacular scenery, great food, friendly fellow passengers, on-board entertainment, no taxi hassles at night&#8217;s end &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But on this mini-cruise there are a few differences to a full-blown blue-water cruise no need for a passport, for starters, because on this weekend jaunt we will not even pass through the Sydney Heads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/holiday-ideas\/testing-water-on-sydney-cruise\/story-e6frfqdi-1226326636641#ixzz1smFpIPe2\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><iframe allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?app_id=259616500730113&#038;href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.expeditioncruising.com%2F&#038;send=false&#038;layout=box_count&#038;width=450&#038;show_faces=true&#038;action=like&#038;colorscheme=light&#038;font&#038;height=90\" style=\"border: none; height: 90px; overflow: hidden; width: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT IS cruising&#8217;s equivalent of sticking a big toe in the water &#8211; a sampler to see if life on the water is right for you. Preparing to board my cruise ship on Sydney Harbour on a clear autumn afternoon, all the good things about cruising come to mind: unpack once, water views everywhere, sail-away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[331],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-captain-cook-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","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=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}