{"id":667,"date":"2012-05-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=667"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:52:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:52:06","slug":"s-is-for-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;S&#8221; is for Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I saw a bunch of ships during my trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New Orleans\">New Orleans<\/a> in April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7081965731\/\" title=\"IMG_0233 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0233\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7081965731_f7852a5247-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I saw a paddlewheeler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6935888924\/\" title=\"IMG_0229 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0229\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6935888924_7ed1d7a1a0-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And a ferry that I swear could be wider than it is long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7081961645\/\" title=\"IMG_0227 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0227\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7081961645_8a3605e837-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A pair of tugboats. It looked to me like they were pushing against the far shore. Perhaps they were trying to make the Mississippi wider? I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m a landlubber Okie. You tell me what they are doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7081983773\/\" title=\"IMG_0252 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0252\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7081983773_0bcd1bc89a-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A crewboat of some kind. Did I ever tell you about riding one of these (or something similar) on a long ride to an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Six hour boat ride, or a one hour helicopter ride. And that is why I live in Oklahoma now!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7081999403\/\" title=\"IMG_0290 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0290\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7081999403_4233051af1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">His and Her freighters of some sort. Weren&#8217;t they in the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7081979637\/\" title=\"IMG_0248 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0248\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7081979637_9f57ef594d-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I saw three ocean going cruise ships. Going the wrong way. Or at least I thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6946214584\/\" title=\"IMG_0348 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0348\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6946214584_8850738598-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I saw some sleek no nonsense warships from several different nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6946242728\/\" title=\"IMG_0365 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0365\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6946242728_506c38f023-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What I liked best were the sailing ships from several nations in town to celebrate &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yogis-den.com\/2012\/04\/new-orleans-navy-week.html\">Navy Week<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7092324769\/\" title=\"IMG_0371 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0371\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7092324769_a8dcdddb0b-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Yep, sailing ships are the best. No thanks I&#8217;ll stay on the bank taking pics if you please.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcwednesday-mrsnesbitt.blogspot.com\/\">ABC Wednesday<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zemified_e.png\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a bunch of ships during my trip to New Orleans in April. I saw a paddlewheeler. And a ferry that I swear could be wider than it is long. A pair of tugboats. It looked to me like they were pushing against the far shore. Perhaps they were trying to make the Mississippi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,633,461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-wednesday","category-s","category-ships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}