{"id":2703,"date":"2026-02-17T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:47:15","slug":"mardi-gras-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras Is Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11847\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11847\" class=\"wp-image-11847 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mardi-Gras-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mardi Gras<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Mardi Gras is today!<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday in French) is the last day before the start of Lent, the forty days before Easter. <\/span>Today is a day of feasting and partying because Lent is not a time of feasting and partying. Special foods include doughnuts and a King Cake (complete with a small, plastic baby). Mardi Gras colors are <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">purple<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">green<\/span><\/strong>, and <strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">gold<\/span><\/strong>. Many cities, including New Orleans, host Mardi Gras parades and other activities. Children can find Mardi Gras activities at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dltk-kids.com\/crafts\/mardigras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mardi Gras<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mardi Gras is today! Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday in French) is the last day before the start of Lent, the forty days before Easter. Today is a day of feasting and partying because Lent is not a time of feasting and partying. Special foods include doughnuts and a King Cake (complete with a small, plastic <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2703' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4341,4342,4340,4339],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-fat-tuesday","tag-king-cake","tag-lent","tag-mardi-gras","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30475,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/30475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}