{"id":3689,"date":"2015-03-18T00:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T07:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2015-03-18T00:10:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T07:10:59","slug":"top-o-the-mornin-cochin-india-03172015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3689","title":{"rendered":"Top o\u2019 The Mornin\u2019 \u2013 Cochin, India \u2013 [03\/17\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/celtic_dreams_by_lovesredrose-d77genu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3690\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/celtic_dreams_by_lovesredrose-d77genu.png\" alt=\"celtic_dreams_by_lovesredrose-d77genu\" width=\"330\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/celtic_dreams_by_lovesredrose-d77genu.png 600w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/celtic_dreams_by_lovesredrose-d77genu-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a>Top o\u2019 the morning\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And the bottom of the glass to you all.<\/p>\n<p>In honesty I don\u2019t celebrate St Patrick\u2019s day very heavily when I am not on the ship; at least, I don\u2019t recall that I do, but since I\u2019ve spent every March 17<sup>th<\/sup> in recent history ship-side it\u2019s possible that I may have forgotten my own traditions!<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I have too much respect for my own \u2013 rather mild \u2013 Irish heritage to see it degraded into an excuse to drink emerald coloured beer. After all, the day is actually celebrating the driving of the Druids out of the Emerald Isle, but as usual, I digress.<\/p>\n<p>On ship? Whether you tend towards it in the \u2018real world\u2019 or not, St Patrick\u2019s day becomes a full on, boisterous, wearin\u2019 o\u2019 the green. And, theatre girl that I am, I go big, or stay home.<\/p>\n<p>Last year we were required to wear the emerald green sequened tail coats (they loan them to us from the dining room), this year\u2026I asked for one. Sadly, they couldn\u2019t find me a small, so I spent about 45 minutes on my cabin floor with a needle and thread doing temporary alterations so that the ridiculously garish garment would fit me. Normally I would not be caught dead in that much bling, but in this particular case, put that \u2026thing\u2026over a pale green cocktail dress, add the right shoes, the right make-up (thank you Amras and Alasse for picking me up emerald green eyeliner what seems like so long ago), fasten a \u201ckiss me, I\u2019m irish\u201d bow in my hair\u2026and presto, instant leprechaun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top o\u2019 the morning\u2026 And the bottom of the glass to you all. In honesty I don\u2019t celebrate St Patrick\u2019s day very heavily when I am not on the ship; at least, I don\u2019t recall that I do, but since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-world-voyage-2015","category-theme-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-Xv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}