{"id":43226,"date":"2017-11-09T21:29:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T02:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/?p=43226"},"modified":"2023-05-06T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T21:36:15","slug":"high-and-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/high-and-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"High and Dry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/crw1217_uwy_underway_001-1024x656.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"sailboat\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/crw1217_uwy_underway_001-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/crw1217_uwy_underway_001-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/crw1217_uwy_underway_001-768x492.jpg 768w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">That&#8217;ll buff out right?<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Tor Johnson<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n<p>What is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>While cruising France on the Loire River last summer, marine photographer Tor Johnson spotted something odd on a lock at La Martini\u00e8re, about 15 miles west of Nantes: a sailboat that appeared to be melting over the side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>No need to worry \u2014 no boats were harmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cmelting\u201d boat is actually a piece of installation art called \u201cMisconceivable,\u201d by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. It was placed there as part of Estuaire, a permanent open-air art exhibition that follows the river from Nantes to Saint-Nazaire. Planning a France cruise? According to Johnson, the \u201cLoire is navigable with mast up all the way to Nantes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about the installation and other works at the Estuaire website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.estuaire.info\/en<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual sight was spotted along the Loire River last summer in France&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Jen Brett","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"20171109","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"162","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"An unusual sight was spotted along the Loire River last summer in France...","_yoast_wpseo_title":"High and Dry? %%sep%% %%sitename%%","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"PW2656VUGREVPGAAOZKH5DAODM","arc_website_url":"high-and-dry\/","custom_permalink":"high-and-dry\/","arc_subtype":"right-sidebar","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":0,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[1136,205,317,948],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}