{"id":88910,"date":"2026-05-09T08:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88910"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:15:22","slug":"nightmare-on-rat-virus-cruise-when-the-first-passenger-died-the-captain-said-it-was-natural-causes-so-everyone-hugged-his-widow-who-died-too-and-that-was-only-the-start-of-the-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/09\/nightmare-on-rat-virus-cruise-when-the-first-passenger-died-the-captain-said-it-was-natural-causes-so-everyone-hugged-his-widow-who-died-too-and-that-was-only-the-start-of-the-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmare on rat virus cruise: When the first passenger died, the captain said it was natural causes, so everyone hugged his widow &#8211; who died too &#8211; and that was only the start of the horror&#8230;"},"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:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/05\/08\/21\/108482381-15802895-image-a-97_1778273537477.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a buzz of excited anticipation among passengers and crew as the MV Hondius departed the southernmost tip of South America 39 days ago.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15802895\/Nightmare-cruise-rat-virus-horror.html\">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>There was a buzz of excited anticipation among passengers and crew as the MV Hondius departed the southernmost tip of South America&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88910","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\/05\/MV-Hondius-route.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88910","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=88910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88911,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88910\/revisions\/88911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}