{"id":11257,"date":"2026-02-17T19:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:23:12","slug":"mardi-gras-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2026\/02\/17\/mardi-gras-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20240213-mardi-gras.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20240213-mardi-gras.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"455\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20240213-mardi-gras.jpg 986w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20240213-mardi-gras-300x138.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20240213-mardi-gras-768x354.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Fat Tuesday! Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, so &#8220;let the good times roll!&#8221; Damsel and I will not be giving anything in particular up for Lent, although our dieting lifestyle has lots of &#8220;give-ups&#8221; built in to it already. <\/p>\n<p>Today, after a bunch of running around, we celebrated the day with Cajun <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/food.vernabob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jambalaya.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Jambalaya<\/a> for our main meal. Good stuff!<\/p>\n<p>The Colors: Remember the symbolism! Purple stands for Justice, Green for Faith, and Gold for Power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/carnival-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/carnival-big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/carnival-big.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/carnival-big-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/carnival-big-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/carnival-big-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/let-the-good-times-roll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"418\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/let-the-good-times-roll.jpg 928w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/let-the-good-times-roll-300x135.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/let-the-good-times-roll-768x346.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Translation: &#8220;LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Fat Tuesday! Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, so &#8220;let the good times roll!&#8221; Damsel and I will not be giving anything&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,43,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-food-dining","category-notions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11264,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions\/11264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}