{"id":447,"date":"2010-11-12T15:48:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bonaire2010.mcguireclan.org\/?p=447"},"modified":"2014-06-01T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:23:51","slug":"12-nov-2010-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"12 Nov 2010  Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_471\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/1111twoships1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-471\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/1111twoships1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1111twoships\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-471\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two cruise shipped docked at the same time.  There were people everywhere!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This morning the view from the window was a bit different as there were two cruise ships, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MS_Grandeur_of_the_Seas\">Grandeur of the Seas<\/a><\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonairepanoramas.com\/panorama.html?id=south-pier\">South Pier<\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MV_Oceana\">Oceana<\/a><\/em> at the north pier.  It is quite impressive to be so close to two such big ships at such small docks.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_472\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/1111redsnapper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-472\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/1111redsnapper-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1111redsnapper\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-472\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red snapper being prepared for our noon meal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This morning, I walked down town to buy a papaya, but they didn&#8217;t look very ripe, so decided to leave them there to ripen and I would pick one up on another day. While I was downtown, I stopped by the vendors and visited with a couple of them and bought our lunch and picked up a few curios.  Our lunch consisted of red snapper, tutu (black-eyed peas and cornmeal), squash and plantain. It was very good, even though we are not used to having the fish stare at us as we eat it!! We also had a real Bonairian meal last night (Larry describes it in his blog).  Such good food!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_473\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/1111dinner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-473\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/1111dinner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1111dinner\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-473\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red snapper, tutu, plantain and squash<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After lunch Larry dropped me at the Warehouse Market and I bought groceries and walked home.  Those bags  (with laundry soap, bottle of softener, milk, sugar, juice, two packages of meat and a jar of mango chutney) got heavy quickly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the view from the window was a bit different as there were two cruise ships, Grandeur of the Seas at South Pier and Oceana at the north pier. It is quite impressive to be so close to two such big ships at such small docks. This morning, I walked down town to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,8],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonaire-2010","tag-10","tag-bonaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}