{"id":1764,"date":"2017-04-04T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2017-04-04T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:57:59","slug":"saving-the-delta-queen-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/saving-the-delta-queen-saga-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the Delta Queen&#8230;. Saga Continues!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hot off the Press! The<strong> Delta Queen<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t been written off yet!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211;<br \/>\nThe <em>Delta Queen<\/em> could be back cruising waterways sometime soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted 85-12 on Monday to allow the legendary riverboat to carry passengers if certain safety changes are made to the wooden vessel. In the past, the Delta Queen had been exempted from a 1966 law that had prevented wooden boats from carrying passengers overnight. That exemption lapsed in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, a sponsor of the measure, appealed to her colleagues to help return the &#8220;Delta Queen to her rightful place on the mighty Mississippi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCaskill said three presidents rode on the Delta Queen &#8211; Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter and Harry S. Truman. She said the boat operated for decades without incident.<\/p>\n<p>The House still must act on the bipartisan bill.<\/p>\n<h3>Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off the Press! The Delta Queen hasn&#8217;t been written off yet! WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The Delta Queen could be back cruising waterways sometime soon. The Senate voted 85-12 on Monday to allow the legendary riverboat to carry passengers if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/saving-the-delta-queen-saga-continues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,109,167,1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating-the-mississippi","category-lower-mississippi","category-small-boat-cruise","category-tourismfall-color","category-uncategorized","category-upper-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}