{"id":160,"date":"2009-02-24T22:19:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T04:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/2009\/02\/24\/report-from-mardi-gras\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T04:19:20","slug":"report-from-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/2009\/02\/24\/report-from-mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Tuesday the 24th and I just got back from my first Mardi Gras<br \/>\nexperience.<br \/>\nMardi Gras was absolutely everything that it was suppose to be: funny,<br \/>\nfreaky, goofy and wild. The streets of the French Quarter are crammed with<br \/>\npeople in every kind of wild costumes imaginable. The mood was very<br \/>\nfestive and everybody seemed to be having a good time: I know that I did.<br \/>\nA special thank you goes out to Tim Rice for picking me up, showing me<br \/>\naround, letting me stay at his beautiful home and taking me into New<br \/>\nOrleans for Mardi Gras: it was an experience that I will never forget.<br \/>\nI had some incredibly beautiful days of riding through the back roads of<br \/>\nLouisiana on mostly deserted roads. Tomorrow Tim will take me to the bike<br \/>\nshop in the morning to get my bike worked on and then drop me off back on<br \/>\nmy route. Tomorrow afternoon I should be in Mississippi and  a few short<br \/>\ndays after that I will begin to ride across the panhandle of Florida to<br \/>\nthe Atlantic. I have approximately 850 miles to go to reach the Atlantic<br \/>\nocean. I have decide to fly home since a one way ticket costs only $84.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t wait to get started again! Thanks to everybody for their comments.<br \/>\nI have a feeling that when I&#8217;ve replied, for some reason, the replies<br \/>\naren&#8217;t being sent. I hope that all is well with everybody: I should be<br \/>\nhome soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Tuesday the 24th and I just got back from my first Mardi Gras experience. Mardi Gras was absolutely everything that it was suppose to be: funny, freaky, goofy and wild. The streets of the French Quarter are crammed with people in every kind of wild costumes imaginable. The mood was very festive and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}