{"id":121132,"date":"2022-01-07T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121132"},"modified":"2021-12-29T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:15:29","slug":"weekend-open-thread-376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121132","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_121133\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=121133\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121133\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121133\" class=\"size-large wp-image-121133\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mardi-Gras-season-2022.jpg?resize=500%2C254&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mardi-Gras-season-2022.jpg?resize=500%2C254&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mardi-Gras-season-2022.jpg?resize=300%2C152&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mardi-Gras-season-2022.jpg?resize=768%2C390&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mardi-Gras-season-2022.jpg?w=935&amp;ssl=1 935w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-121133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The King Cake is a Mardi Gras season treat. Whoever discovers the &#8220;baby&#8221; in their piece of the cake is automatically tagged to purchase the next King Cake.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mardi Gras Season, also referred to as Carnival Season, and informally known as Epiphany Season, began yesterday, January 6, 2022. This season runs until March 1, 2022, Mardi Gras. The &#8220;King Cake&#8221; is this season&#8217;s version of the Christmas fruit cake. New Orleans usually starts its Mardi Gras parades on January 6. We are also still in the liturgical season of Christmas, which ends this Sunday. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Enjoy your weekend.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mardi Gras Season, also referred to as Carnival Season, and informally known as Epiphany Season, began yesterday, January 6, 2022. This season runs until March 1, 2022, Mardi Gras. The &#8220;King Cake&#8221; is this season&#8217;s version of the Christmas fruit cake. New Orleans usually starts its Mardi Gras parades on January 6. We are also [&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-121132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-vvK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121132","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=121132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}