{"id":1736,"date":"2006-12-19T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/19\/festivus\/"},"modified":"2006-12-19T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T15:56:00","slug":"festivus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/19\/festivus\/","title":{"rendered":"Festivus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We missed Sunday night carols in Jackson Square.  We forgot about the afternoon Second Line from lower 9 into Marginy.  Didn&#8217;t quite make it to City Park for Celebration in the Oaks, as hoped.  BUT&#8230; we made it to Festivus!<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMTLscnvI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/5goltBEXZWU\/s1600-h\/IMG_5209.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMTLscnvI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/5goltBEXZWU\/s400\/IMG_5209.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010268109145939698\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Named for George Costanza&#8217;s family tradition, Festivus is a holiday art market sponsored by the Crescent City Farmer&#8217;s Market.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMK7scnrI\/AAAAAAAAAHM\/_HFiCf0HZXg\/s1600-h\/IMG_5182.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMK7scnrI\/AAAAAAAAAHM\/_HFiCf0HZXg\/s400\/IMG_5182.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010267967412018866\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMKrscnqI\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/Q-9IXl3zL18\/s1600-h\/IMG_5222.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMKrscnqI\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/Q-9IXl3zL18\/s400\/IMG_5222.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010267963117051554\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It was typical New Orleans &#8212; yummy food, musicians, local color, familiar faces and friends.  We are constantly amazed at how this big city has such a small town feel.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMLLscntI\/AAAAAAAAAHc\/OUHCY2ULO94\/s1600-h\/IMG_5188.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMLLscntI\/AAAAAAAAAHc\/OUHCY2ULO94\/s400\/IMG_5188.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010267971706986194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Favorite local artist <a href=\"http:\/\/hedesigns.com\/\">Heather Elizabeth<\/a> was there (we took home one of her beautiful &#8220;REBUILD&#8221; ornaments &#8212; that&#8217;s her with the dark hair, above), our neighborhood bookstore, Basin Street Records (local label), and other community artists and businesses.<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMK7scnsI\/AAAAAAAAAHU\/y8YJoVlHVTY\/s1600-h\/IMG_5183.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMK7scnsI\/AAAAAAAAAHU\/y8YJoVlHVTY\/s400\/IMG_5183.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010267967412018882\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>She&#8217;s playing an African finger piano, made by David (the guy playing the guitar).<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMLLscnuI\/AAAAAAAAAHk\/kKyqHGyMAl4\/s1600-h\/IMG_5205.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYgMLLscnuI\/AAAAAAAAAHk\/kKyqHGyMAl4\/s400\/IMG_5205.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010267971706986210\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We missed Sunday night carols in Jackson Square. We forgot about the afternoon Second Line from lower 9 into Marginy. Didn&#8217;t quite make it to City Park for Celebration in the Oaks, as hoped. BUT&#8230; we made it to Festivus!Named for George Costanza&#8217;s family tradition, Festivus is a holiday art market sponsored by the Crescent [&hellip;]<\/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\/1736"}],"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=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}