Since coming back to New Orleans, I’ve been having a hard time getting excited about Mardi Gras. Now I have some information that is making me want to get out there to a parade.<\/p>\n
I am a life-long fan of All My Children<\/a> (yes, the ABC soap opera, of all things). Feel free to make fun, I understand. AMC was something very special that I shared with my mother and especially my grandmother (who lived with my family for 13 years starting when I was 4). She mailed me clippings of the soap during college when I couldn’t watch and we faithfully wrote letters back and forth about “our story” until the day she died. I do my best to watch every now and then and keep somewhat up-to-date online. Not keeping up with the story would be an insult to her memory; it was and is our special bond. (I also hold a secret desire to be a soap writer and have fun following the silly plot twists.)<\/p>\n And as a soap follower, I had my special favorites growing up. One of them, Dixie Cooney, (played by Cady McClain) has just come back to the show after a hiatus of several years — and dear Dixie is going to be rolling with Morpheus<\/a> on Friday night! She is actually going to be joined by several soap stars from AMC and other ABC soaps — most notably, AMC’s own Erica Kane (Susan Lucci, the diva of daytime!) The next day, the stars are throwing a free “fun in the sun<\/a>” party in Jackson Square. I totally want to be well enough to see them in Morpheus… but the question is if I will actually make it out to the square with all the lunatic fans on Saturday? (And then, the real question: if I go, does that make me a lunatic fan?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since coming back to New Orleans, I’ve been having a hard time getting excited about Mardi Gras. Now I have some information that is making me want to get out there to a parade. I am a life-long fan of All My Children (yes, the ABC soap opera, of all things). Feel free to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}