{"id":225,"date":"2011-01-16T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/?p=225"},"modified":"2011-01-16T08:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T12:31:05","slug":"lucky-melville-we-made-it-with-11-hours-to-spare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/2011\/01\/16\/lucky-melville-we-made-it-with-11-hours-to-spare\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Melville &#8211; We made it with 11 hours to spare!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_226\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/01\/100_0040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-226 \" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/01\/100_0040-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/01\/100_0040-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/01\/100_0040-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/01\/100_0040.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melville crew pulling in dock lines as we leave the dock in Punta Arenas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Readers may recall the we left the dock in Punta Arenas at 1 PM local time on January, 11, 2011. \u00a0 While we were waiting to leave we had been hearing rumors that the citizens of the Magallanes Provence were threatening to strike over a 20% increase in oil prices. \u00a0 What we didn&#8217;t know at the time was that we went to sea with only 11 hours to spare. \u00a0 Starting at midnight on January 12 a general strike was called that effectively blocked all roads,<!--more--> air travel, and access to the dock. \u00a0 Tragically, several protesters were killed when a truck attempted to drive through barriers on a road. \u00a0 Thousands of tourists have been stranded in Punta Arenas. \u00a0 Read more about the strike by following the links below.<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: medium\">1\/14\/2011: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2011\/01\/14\/punta-arenas-two-dead-32-arrested-in-early-hours-of-massive-strike\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Punta Arenas: Two Dead, 32 Arrested In Early Hours of Massive Strike<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: medium\">1\/16\/2011: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2011\/01\/15\/strike-easing-in-magallanes-chile\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Strike easing in Magallanes, Chile<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&#8211; Whitney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers may recall the we left the dock in Punta Arenas at 1 PM local time on January, 11, 2011. \u00a0 While we were waiting to leave we had been hearing rumors that the citizens of the Magallanes Provence were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/2011\/01\/16\/lucky-melville-we-made-it-with-11-hours-to-spare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17554,17550,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}