{"id":108758,"date":"2021-01-08T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108758"},"modified":"2020-12-27T12:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:42:16","slug":"weekend-open-thread-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108758","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_108759\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108759\" class=\"size-large wp-image-108759\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mardi-Gras-Season-2021.png?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mardi-Gras-Season-2021.png?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mardi-Gras-Season-2021.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mardi-Gras-Season-2021.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mardi-Gras-Season-2021.png?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-108759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mardi Gras season (informally Epiphanytide) comes with its own version of the Christmas cake: the king cake. Whoever gets the slice with the baby in it is on the gun to purchase the next king cake. (Getty images)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Mardi Gras is on February 16, 2021. We are already in the Mardi Gras season, which runs from January 6 through February 16. If you have a birthday during any of these days, you have the option of having Mardi Gras decorations and a king cake. This season is informally also known as Epiphany Season, sandwiched between Christmas Season and Lent Season. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Enjoy your weekend.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Mardi Gras is on February 16, 2021. We are already in the Mardi Gras season, which runs from January 6 through February 16. If you have a birthday during any of these days, you have the option of having Mardi Gras decorations and a king cake. This season is informally also known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-sia","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}