{"id":68,"date":"2008-02-17T21:56:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T09:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.net\/2008\/02\/17\/cunard-ms-queen-victoria\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T21:56:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T09:56:54","slug":"cunard-ms-queen-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Cunard MS Queen Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one big ship. I was quite surprised that it even fitted in to Napier Port. The NZ press touted it as being the biggest liner ever built, but I think it&#8217;s actually a wee bit smaller than Cunard&#8217;s own Queen Mary II.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/queenvictoria.jpg' alt='queenvictoria.jpg' \/><br \/>\nUgly looking slab IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>So, they drive it into Napier Port&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/victorianapier1.jpg' alt='victorianapier1.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>three point turn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/victorianapier2.jpg' alt='victorianapier2.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>and she&#8217;s tied up.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an aerial shot.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/victoriaaerial.jpg' alt='victoriaaerial.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, how did I take that picture? Yes it is mine!<\/p>\n<p>You wait weeks (or more, sorry) for a blog to come along and nothing, then, just like buses, three come along one after the other!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one big ship. I was quite surprised that it even fitted in to Napier Port. The NZ press touted it as being the biggest liner ever built, but I think it&#8217;s actually a wee bit smaller than Cunard&#8217;s own Queen Mary II. Ugly looking slab IMHO. So, they drive it into Napier Port&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=68\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cunard MS Queen Victoria&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}