{"id":85898,"date":"2026-03-04T21:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85898"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:07:26","slug":"the-panicking-cruise-passengers-trapped-in-gulf-warzone-by-irans-strait-of-hormuz-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/04\/the-panicking-cruise-passengers-trapped-in-gulf-warzone-by-irans-strait-of-hormuz-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;panicking&#8217; cruise passengers trapped in Gulf warzone by Iran&#8217;s Strait of Hormuz blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XwtZL.img?w=534&amp;h=415&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Two of the affected ships pictured on Monday\u00a0docked at the terminal close to the old port, in Doha, Qatar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of cruise ship passengers are trapped in ports in the Gulf by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iran\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Iran<\/a>&#8216;s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, leaving tourists desperate to escape <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-nz\/news\/other\/the-panicking-cruise-passengers-trapped-in-gulf-warzone-by-irans-strait-of-hormuz-blockade\/ar-AA1XwehV?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Thousands of cruise ship passengers are trapped in ports in the Gulf by\u00a0Iran&#8216;s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, leaving tourists desperate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cruise-ship-stranded.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85900,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85898\/revisions\/85900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}