{"id":12797,"date":"2009-02-24T07:46:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T07:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/24\/mardi-gras\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T07:46:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T07:46:37","slug":"mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/24\/mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post\">\n<p class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I penned the following observation&#0160;on Mardi Gras 2005 around the time of hurricane Katrina, but even I found it too &#39;insensitive&#39; for posting at that time. But &#39;insensitive&#39; is what we conservatives are supposed to be, right? The thought is correct, in any case, and political correctness be damned.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Georgia\"><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Georgia\">If the good folks down Nawlins* way spent less time letting the good times roll and more on the deferral of gratification, they might be better prepared for nature&#39;s little surprises.<br \/>_____<br \/>*New Orleans<\/font> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I penned the following observation&#0160;on Mardi Gras 2005 around the time of hurricane Katrina, but even I found it too &#39;insensitive&#39; for posting at that time. But &#39;insensitive&#39; is what we conservatives are supposed to be, right? The thought is correct, in any case, and political correctness be damned. If the good folks down Nawlins* &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/24\/mardi-gras\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mardi Gras&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}