{"id":92,"date":"2007-06-19T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2007\/06\/19\/92\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T22:08:00","slug":"92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt a twinge of sadness the other day when I read that the last of the great trans-Atlantic passenger ships, the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/span>, is going to be retired and sent to Dubai to become a floating hotel.  By the time that the QE 2 went into service around 1970 (when I was still in high school), the jet plane had already killed off most of the demand for three-day voyages from New York to London or Paris.  But God bless those British folk at Cunard for building one last great \u201cliner\u201d, nonetheless.  <\/p>\n<p>The Queen kept up the old tradition for another three decades, although toward the end it was doing more cruise business than cross-Atlantic trade.  I never rode the Queen, but I once worked in Manhattan and had a view of the Hudson River dock where the Queen would hold court every month or two.  I always kept an eye out for her.  Sometimes she\u2019d be docking as I was getting to my desk in the morning, and once or twice I was there late enough to watch her heading downriver for the open seas.  Well, I doubt if I\u2019ll have reason to visit Dubai anytime soon, so perhaps I\u2019ll never see the old girl again.  But here\u2019s a pic I managed to get of her from my office.  A nice little memory of some British pomp and circumstance on the west side.  New York, and the world in general, is not a better place now that the Queen 2 no longer flies the Union Jack proudly over the briny seas.  Hail Britannia, erstwhile ruler of the waves!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/qe2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt a twinge of sadness the other day when I read that the last of the great trans-Atlantic passenger ships, the Queen Elizabeth II, is going to be retired and sent to Dubai to become a floating hotel. By the time that the QE 2 went into service around 1970 (when I was still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}