{"id":893,"date":"2011-03-05T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/mardi-gras-on-sunday-were-talkin-asheville\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T15:22:00","slug":"mardi-gras-on-sunday-were-talkin-asheville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/mardi-gras-on-sunday-were-talkin-asheville\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras on Sunday? We&#8217;re Talkin&#8217; Asheville!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">   So you&#8217;ve never seen Mardi Gras on Sunday? Well, no worries, it&#8217;s Asheville we&#8217;re talking about!  Sure, in Rio De Janeiro or in New Orleans the celebration before the 40 days of Lent begins goes on for more than a week.<\/p>\n<p> But in most places, Mardi Gras, translated from the French is literally &#8220;Fat Tuesday&#8221;, is just one day&#8230;the day before the start of Lent. And the one day of celebrating would be&#8230;a Tuesday!  Families and churches typically hold &#8220;Pancake Suppers&#8221; on that Tuesday to get in one last day of sweet and yummy stuff to eat.<\/p>\n<p> But leave it to Asheville, NC, ever a place of jolly surprises, to take the initiative to have the Mardi Gras Parade, not on Tuesday but on Sunday&#8230;this coming Sunday, March 6th.You can say, &#8220;Wher&#8217;yat&#8221; and &#8220;Who dat?&#8221; with the best of them!<\/p>\n<p> Downtown Asheviile about 3pm Sunday, even if we have rain, will be the scene of great costumes and revelry, you may be sure! So if you&#8217;ve had the luxury and relaxation of a visit to our Asheville bed and breakfast on Saturday night and if you can be a bit more leisurely before you head for home&#8230; stop by Downtown Asheville and check out Mardi Gras Parade, Asheville-style!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve never seen Mardi Gras on Sunday? Well, no worries, it&#8217;s Asheville we&#8217;re talking about! Sure, in Rio De&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/mardi-gras-on-sunday-were-talkin-asheville\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mardi Gras on Sunday? We&#8217;re Talkin&#8217; Asheville!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbingtongreen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}