{"id":50,"date":"2019-01-25T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedtitanic.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2019-01-25T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:44:10","slug":"voyage-to-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/voyage-to-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyage to Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/files\/2010\/09\/rms_titanic-pic3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-51\" title=\"rms_titanic-pic3\" src=\"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/files\/2019\/01\/rms_titanic-pic3-150x150.jpg\" alt='' width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The R.M.S. Titanic sailed from Southampton on Wednesday April 10 with 2,208 passengers and crew.<\/p>\n<p>On a clear, starlit night, Titanic could not see far enough ahead to see ice and avoid striking it.<\/p>\n<p>Even on a bright moonlit night, unless the moon was behind the ice, outlining it, ice might easily be overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>On the night of April 14,1912,the sea was unusually calm, and there was no moon.<\/p>\n<p>It was difficult to see. In addition the binoculars for the lookout had been misplaced before the ship departed Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>Glittering stars in their black background, Sunday April 14 at 11:40 PM Titanic struck a submerged spur of an enormous iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>Two hours and forty minutes later, at 2:20 AM she plunged into the black abyss.<\/p>\n<p>1,500 innocent men, women and children perished on that fateful night&#8230;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The R.M.S. Titanic sailed from Southampton on Wednesday April 10 with 2,208 passengers and crew. On a clear, starlit night, Titanic could not see far enough ahead to see ice and avoid striking it. Even on a bright moonlit night, unless the moon was behind the ice, outlining it, ice might easily be overlooked. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_62031022_62031022":"","facebook_10217940033071675_2067660953325404":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,96,97,364,447,540,794,839,1068,1086,1216],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-stories-go-on","tag-april-14-1912","tag-black-abyss","tag-black-background","tag-fateful-night","tag-glittering-stars","tag-innocent-men-women","tag-moonlit-night","tag-night-of-april","tag-southampton","tag-starlit-night","tag-voyage-to-eternity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLdUW-O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/titanic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}