{"id":25727,"date":"2012-09-18T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=25727"},"modified":"2012-09-18T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:51:00","slug":"a-brief-meeting-with-prince-harry-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/a-brief-meeting-with-prince-harry-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Meeting With Prince Harry In The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The small dock over the turquoise water was crammed full. There were local dignitaries, a few island elders and a dozen children in school uniform — one of them was holding an official looking plaque. A pool of photographers was sequestered behind a rope. Everyone was poised and ready.<\/p>\n

On shore, the open-air bar at Valentine’s swelled to capacity. A sample of the island’s famous pink sand had been trucked in and filled a makeshift box, ready to be admired for its rosy glow.<\/p>\n

A banner was unfurled, welcoming the young Prince. It started to rain.<\/p>\n

Everyone scrambled for shelter. The children began to shriek. An important and aged woman in a leopard skin dress was assisted under cover. Photographers shoved their long lenses up their shirts and looked put upon. Prince Harry was due to arrive for a brief State visit to Harbour Island in the Bahamas in exactly three minutes. Word over the walkie-talkie said that his boat had already left Eluethera, just a five-minute ride across the bay. And the well-orchestrated assemblage was thrown into chaos under a warm drizzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy relates his brief encounter with Prince Harry on Harbour Island, where the Royal’s six-minute visit had the island abuzz. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[18],"tags":[46,59,73],"class_list":["post-25727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-celebrities","tag-islands","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}