{"id":58986,"date":"2020-03-07T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-this-cruise-ship-should-be-subjected-to-a-federal-inspection\/"},"modified":"2020-03-07T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T16:05:00","slug":"opinion-this-cruise-ship-should-be-subjected-to-a-federal-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-this-cruise-ship-should-be-subjected-to-a-federal-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: This cruise ship should be subjected to a federal inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read the article by Mr. Fargnoli, and I agree with him that the residents of Juneau should not be placed in a high-risk situation.<\/p>\n<p><ins>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/opinion-cruise-ship-decision-should-be-tabled-by-the-assembly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opinion: Cruise ship decision should be tabled by Assembly<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>What could be the motivation behind a decision to do something like this?<\/p>\n<p>Could it be money, or are we just being nice to the tour companies?<\/p>\n<p>I would hope that Mr. Watt and Mayor Beth Weldon will meet the ship, go aboard and shake hands with the captain and every crew member before presenting them with a key to our city, of course, this should be done with no protective mask or gloves.<\/p>\n<p>These vessels should be anchored off our shores and subjected to a federal inspection by our government rather than the Philippines. That would ease my fears somewhat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dick Dau,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Juneau<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><ins>&#8226; Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire.<\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the article by Mr. Fargnoli, and I agree with him that the residents of Juneau should not be placed in a high-risk situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":58987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-58986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58986"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=58986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}