{"id":3456,"date":"2016-02-08T16:31:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2016-03-09T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:33:18","slug":"mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/2016\/02\/08\/mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/3875559477_5590836137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3457\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/3875559477_5590836137-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"3875559477_5590836137\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/3875559477_5590836137-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/3875559477_5590836137.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mardi Gras, French for \u201cFat Tuesday\u201d marks the end of Carnival and the beginning of the Christian fasting of Lent. The biggest Mardi Gras celebration in the US is in New Orleans, Louisiana. Rio de Janeiro in Brazil also has a huge celebration. Find a Brazilian au pair in your cluster and ask her to tell you all about it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Photo: David (Flickr)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/3875559477_5590836137.jpg\"><\/a>Mardi Gras, French for \u201cFat Tuesday\u201d marks the end of Carnival and the beginning of the Christian fasting of Lent. The biggest Mardi Gras celebration in the US is in New Orleans, Louisiana. Rio de Janeiro in Brazil also has a huge celebration. Find a Brazilian au pair in your cluster and ask her  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/2016\/02\/08\/mardi-gras\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139,1074,1075,457,1073],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brazil","tag-carnival","tag-fat-tuesday","tag-holiday","tag-mardi-gras"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mardi Gras - Au Pair Chatter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mardi Gras - Au Pair Chatter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mardi Gras, French for \u201cFat Tuesday\u201d marks the end of Carnival and the beginning of the Christian fasting of Lent. 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