{"id":2290,"date":"2009-02-25T02:29:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T08:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2009-02-25T02:29:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T08:29:18","slug":"day-55-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/memories\/day-55-mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 55: Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/3308006745\/\" title=\"Day 55: Mardi Gras by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3393\/3308006745_706362da79.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Day 55: Mardi Gras\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fairly indifferent about Mardi Gras in general, and lean toward curmudgeonly since it&#8217;s pretty much a free-for-all exploit-o-gropefest, but far be it from me to rain on anyone else&#8217;s weirdo parade. My second-grade teacher brought back beads for the class one year she went to Mardi Gras, and I&#8217;ve hung on to them ever since. I remember wearing them until the clasp broke. I do not want to know how my teacher got them. <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/sets\/72157611984534859\/\">Project 365<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fairly indifferent about Mardi Gras in general, and lean toward curmudgeonly since it&#8217;s pretty much a free-for-all exploit-o-gropefest, but far be it from me to rain on anyone else&#8217;s weirdo parade. My second-grade teacher brought back beads for the class one year she went to Mardi Gras, and I&#8217;ve hung on to them ever since. I remember wearing them until the clasp broke. I do not want to know how my teacher got them.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,683],"tags":[857,810,856,2148,2149],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-project-365-2009","tag-beads","tag-jewelry","tag-mardi-gras","tag-memories","tag-project-365"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-AW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}