{"id":1118,"date":"2013-02-12T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcd\/2013\/02\/12\/583\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T13:36:22","slug":"583","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcd\/2013\/02\/12\/583\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_587\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-587\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcd\/2013\/02\/12\/583\/carnival-mask-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-587\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-587\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/02\/carnival-mask31-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mardi Gras\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mardi Gras<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>February 12-Mardi Gras<\/strong> Mardi Gras, French for \u201cFat Tuesday\u201d marks the end of Carnival and the beginning of the Christian fasting of Lent.\u00a0 The biggest Mardi Gras celebration in the US is in New Orleans, Louisiana.\u00a0 Rio de Janeiro in Brazil also has a huge celebration.\u00a0 Find a Brazilian au pair in your cluster and ask her to tell you all about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 12-Mardi Gras Mardi Gras, French for \u201cFat Tuesday\u201d marks the end of Carnival and the beginning of the Christian fasting of Lent.\u00a0 The biggest Mardi Gras celebration in the US is in New Orleans, Louisiana.\u00a0 Rio de Janeiro in Brazil also has a huge celebration.\u00a0 Find a Brazilian au pair in your cluster and  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcd\/2013\/02\/12\/583\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mardi Gras - Weston &amp; 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