{"id":1982,"date":"2008-08-11T21:25:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2008-08-12T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T21:33:25","slug":"hal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"HAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1983\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1983\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/h_a_l_m_aas_dam-150x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MS Maasdam\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1983\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/h_a_l_m_aas_dam-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/h_a_l_m_aas_dam-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/h_a_l_m_aas_dam.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>oday, three cruise ships stopped by in Saint John: the Carnival Victory, the Grandeur and the Maasdam.\n<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have time to try to get all three of them on one photo (I only had the 80mm on me) and my goal was just to make a snapshot of the HAL logo: The reason being family history I guess, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=328\">previously on xsamplex<\/a>), or one might say, for sentimental reasons only. I noticed that there was a tighter security detail than a couple of weeks before: At that time, I was able to get a closer look at the &#8216;Grandeur of the Seas&#8217; by walking right up to the ship&#8217;s bow via the parking lot at Pugsley A. Today, the parking lot was closed off and watched by two security guards, probably from Customs Canada.\n<\/p>\n<p>The next HAL ship is slated to arrive September 4th (The Eurodam). As you can tell from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruisesaintjohn.com\/visitsaintjohn\/cruiseschedule.asp\">Saint John Cruiseship schedule<\/a>, the Victory is here almost once a week. From what I understand, the most anticipated ship at this moment is coming in on September 20th: the Queen Elizabeth 2 enter Saint John port and will dock at Pugsley A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, three cruise ships stopped by in Saint John: the Carnival Victory, the Grandeur and the Maasdam. I didn&#8217;t have time to try to get all three of them on one photo (I only had the 80mm on me) and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1982\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[319,582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}