{"id":1800,"date":"2019-02-05T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2019-02-05T13:59:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:59:56","slug":"mardi-gras-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/news\/mardi-gras-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we know, we didn&#8217;t do a Mardi Gras party last year! (Emoji Sad Face).<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re back (Emoji Happy Face)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1801\" src=\"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mardigras19-2-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Waiter's arm holding Mardi Gras Party cake\" width=\"294\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mardigras19-2-215x300.jpg 215w, http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mardigras19-2-768x1070.jpg 768w, http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mardigras19-2-735x1024.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/> &#8211; from quite close extinction &#8211; to celebrate this ancient festival.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally in the this country we eat pancakes! But in Brazil, the Caribbean, New Orleans, Venice and lots of other places they have Carnival!<\/p>\n<p>You could wear a mask &#8211; be a devil &#8211; it&#8217;s a chance to do that without being arrested &#8211; and allow yourself the freedom that it affords.<\/p>\n<p>So on Tuesday March 5th from 6 \u2013 11pm at 18 Victoria Park Square, E2 9PB in the Michael Young room you\u2019ll find food, drink, music, good company and a little bit of warm\u00a0carnival spirit.<\/p>\n<p>All our friends are welcome with masks or without. Do let us know if you\u2019re coming and pass on the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we know, we didn&#8217;t do a Mardi Gras party last year! (Emoji Sad Face). But we&#8217;re back (Emoji Happy Face) &#8211; from quite close extinction &#8211; to celebrate this ancient festival. Traditionally in the this country we eat pancakes! But in Brazil, the Caribbean, New Orleans, Venice and lots of other places they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}