{"id":95965,"date":"2025-12-26T01:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95965\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:51:26","slug":"17-days-at-sea-explora-is-barcelona-miami-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95965\/","title":{"rendered":"17 days at sea: Explora I\u2019s Barcelona\u2013Miami crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After that \u2013 nothing. Six unbroken days of Atlantic, stretching all the way to the horizon and our restless imaginations.<\/p>\n<p>On a voyage with this many sea days in a row, time aboard ship, I discovered, has the quality of a sojourn with Homer\u2019s lotus-eaters. It slips by unmeasured. Three days, four days slide like water under the hull. I\u2019d wake most mornings for yoga on the aft deck, though \u201cwake\u201d suggests more intention than I possessed. Really, I\u2019d simply find myself there, half-conscious, while the instructor murmured something about setting intentions and the horizon bled from charcoal to apricot.<\/p>\n<p>One day, we crossed the Tropic of Cancer and sailed officially into tropical waters. And heat. Explora I\u2019s four pools \u2013 the wake-edge infinity of the Astern, the sun-lit Conservatory with its retractable glass roof, the adults-only Helios, the hidden Atoll \u2013 claimed their brigades of determined sun-seekers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After that \u2013 nothing. Six unbroken days of Atlantic, stretching all the way to the horizon and our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4949,123,125,124,50969],"class_list":{"0":"post-95965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-destination","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-places-attractions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}