{"id":245394,"date":"2004-06-02T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/gay-cruise-escapes-protests"},"modified":"2004-06-02T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T17:00:20","slug":"gay-cruise-escapes-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/gay-cruise-escapes-protests","title":{"rendered":"Gay Cruise Escapes Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Fantasy cruise ship carrying openly gay passengers docked in New Providence Tuesday, there were no demonstrations or protests similar to those seen in 1998.<br \/>\n<P>Some callers to Love 97&#8217;s Issues of the Day praised the arrival of the cruise and others ridiculed the strong stance taken by the Bahamas Christian Council against the arrival of the boat.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nOne caller said she resented that the Bahamas Christian Council appeared to be speaking for the whole country.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe BCC has made it clear that they will not welcome &#8220;this or any other gay cruise&#8221;.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe ship spent the night in Nassau and was expected to leave this morning to  return to Port Canaveral, Florida.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Rupert Missick, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first &#8216;Gay Days&#8217; cruise arrived in Nassau yesterday morning and the visit passed off without incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}