{"id":14951,"date":"2012-02-17T08:27:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=14951"},"modified":"2012-02-17T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:08:17","slug":"muses-the-best-mardi-gras-parade-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=14951","title":{"rendered":"Muses &#8211; the BEST Mardi Gras parade ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went, we stayed, we had to leave early (9pm) when Muses was at Float #10 (hint: a friend was on #21 and we hadn&#8217;t even seen the Pussyfooters, the Camel Toe High Steppers, the Bearded Oysters), but we did see Theresa Anderson high up on a flying goose singing Hold Me with a band wearing gotham headgear. <\/p>\n<p>Just what we saw was enough for me to say &#8211; wow! What a parade.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that there is a special pride I feel in this city that on Thursday night a large number of folks got decked out in feathers, glitter, and wigs and marched down the streets of New Orleans with the sole purpose of entertaining us. <\/p>\n<p>Too bad Marc Pagani is not the official photographer for Mardi Gras:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/394062_10150662490221253_670836252_11667041_909941277_n.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14962\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=14962\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/394062_10150662490221253_670836252_11667041_909941277_n.jpg?fit=214%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"214,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"394062_10150662490221253_670836252_11667041_909941277_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/394062_10150662490221253_670836252_11667041_909941277_n.jpg?fit=214%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/394062_10150662490221253_670836252_11667041_909941277_n.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" title=\"394062_10150662490221253_670836252_11667041_909941277_n\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/394062_10150662490221253_670836252_11667041_909941277_n.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/394062_10150662490221253_670836252_11667041_909941277_n.jpg?w=214&amp;ssl=1 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/424747_10150662485541253_670836252_11667035_1491281289_n.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14963\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=14963\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/424747_10150662485541253_670836252_11667035_1491281289_n.jpg?fit=320%2C213&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"320,213\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"424747_10150662485541253_670836252_11667035_1491281289_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/424747_10150662485541253_670836252_11667035_1491281289_n.jpg?fit=320%2C213&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/424747_10150662485541253_670836252_11667035_1491281289_n.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"\" title=\"424747_10150662485541253_670836252_11667035_1491281289_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/424747_10150662485541253_670836252_11667035_1491281289_n.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/424747_10150662485541253_670836252_11667035_1491281289_n.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went, we stayed, we had to leave early (9pm) when Muses was at Float #10 (hint: a friend was on #21 and we hadn&#8217;t even seen the Pussyfooters, the Camel Toe High Steppers, the Bearded Oysters), but we did see Theresa Anderson high up on a flying goose singing Hold Me with a band wearing gotham headgear. Just what we saw was enough for me to say &#8211; wow! What a parade. I have&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3T9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14960,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14951\/revisions\/14960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}