{"id":98664,"date":"2023-05-04T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-im-leaving-town-for-the-cruise-season\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T06:30:00","slug":"opinion-im-leaving-town-for-the-cruise-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-im-leaving-town-for-the-cruise-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: I&#8217;m leaving town for the cruise season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 15. My calendar is marked for the day that I leave Juneau for most of the cruise season, formerly known as &ldquo;summer.&rdquo; Because of the incessant audio onslaught brought on by buses, boats and helicopters, my partner and I will be travel to lesser-known destinations in order to enjoy peace from the noise. Don&rsquo;t get me wrong, I do support and understand the importance of the tourism industry&#8230;to a point. What I don&rsquo;t support is the over-crowding, the pollution and the willingness of our city leaders to sell their souls to the mega-cruise industry. I don&rsquo;t support the compromise we&rsquo;re all making to our health, safety and quality of life by encouraging over 1.7 million people be dumped downtown by cruise ships from April through October. I get that it&rsquo;s all about the money. But when is enough, enough? I&rsquo;ll be taking my money elsewhere for a while&#8230;see you when it&rsquo;s over!<\/p>\n<p><em>Suki Patterson, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Juneau<\/em><\/p>\n<p><ins><em>&#8226; Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/have-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ll be taking my money elsewhere for a while&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":98665,"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-98664","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\/98664","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=98664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98664"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=98664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}