{"id":22595,"date":"2026-02-19T17:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=22595"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:03:17","slug":"shipwreck-at-el-morro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2026\/02\/shipwreck-at-el-morro\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipwreck at El Morro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"625\" data-attachment-id=\"22596\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2026\/02\/shipwreck-at-el-morro\/img_4011\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4011-scaled-e1771539276348.jpeg?fit=2103%2C1370&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2103,1370\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4011\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4011-scaled-e1771539276348.jpeg?fit=960%2C625&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4011-scaled-e1771539276348-1024x667.jpeg?resize=960%2C625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4011-scaled-e1771539276348.jpeg?resize=1024%2C667&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4011-scaled-e1771539276348.jpeg?resize=400%2C261&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4011-scaled-e1771539276348.jpeg?resize=768%2C500&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4011-scaled-e1771539276348.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1001&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4011-scaled-e1771539276348.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1334&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4011-scaled-e1771539276348.jpeg?resize=1194%2C778&amp;ssl=1 1194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4011-scaled-e1771539276348.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re traveling in Puerto Rico with the family this week, while the kids are on their winter break. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Took a brief trip to Old San Juan, and checked out <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Castillo_San_Felipe_del_Morro\">Castillo San Felipe del Morro<\/a> (then drank pi\u00f1a colada&#8217;s&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frommers.com\/trip-ideas\/food-and-drink\/where-was-the-pia-colada-born-a-bar-fight-between-two-puerto-rico-tourism-icons\/\">evidently<\/a> mixed by an <a href=\"https:\/\/barrachina.com\">imposter<\/a>, but still delicious).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workboat.com\/fuel-removed-from-barge-that-ran-aground-off-san-juan\">a fuel barge ran aground<\/a> on the rocks directly in front of El Morro, only last week! You can get a neat view from the ramparts, an unexpected bonus with your ticket to the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re traveling in Puerto Rico with the family this week, while the kids are on their winter break. Took a brief trip to Old San Juan, and checked out Castillo San Felipe del Morro (then drank pi\u00f1a colada&#8217;s&#8230; evidently mixed by an imposter, but still delicious). Apparently a fuel barge ran aground on the rocks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[282,156],"class_list":["post-22595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-puerto-rico","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-5Sr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22595"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22606,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22595\/revisions\/22606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}