{"id":3981,"date":"2009-02-15T21:28:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T04:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2009-02-15T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T04:30:29","slug":"how-we-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/how-we-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"How we roll."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does a New Orleans family do it?\u00c2\u00a0 All the parades, all the loot, all the accessories&#8230; we must tote the costumed kids, the ladders, the stools, the coolers and the snacks&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>This is how we do it.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3976\" title=\"roll-140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-140.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-140-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(By the way, yesterday, Kate was a cowgirl and Will was Peter Pan.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure others have done the kid-riding-on-the-ladder thing, but we still get stares.\u00c2\u00a0 Mostly, it&#8217;s parents looking at us going, &#8216;why didn&#8217;t we think of that?!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3977\" title=\"roll-141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-141.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-141-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Paul admits that this would be hard to do if he&#8217;d been drinking all afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>(Side note: The costumes today were Mardi Gras Butterfly and Superman.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Will&#8217;s new thing?\u00c2\u00a0 To correct the way we say &#8220;Mardi Gras&#8221; to the French pronunciation.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically, it&#8217;s just like how we say it now, but with the added inflection you&#8217;d give it if you were trying to dislodge something stuck in the back of your throat.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s what makes all things in French sound so pretty.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3980\" title=\"roll-144\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-144.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-144-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t I allowed just one beefcake picture?  Gotta get it all out of my system before Lent, you know!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3978\" title=\"roll-142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-142.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-142-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While Paul does the heavy lifting, I follow with cooler, accessories, and loot bags.\u00c2\u00a0 Randomly stopping to photograph festivities along the walk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3979\" title=\"roll-143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-143.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/roll-143-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Mardi Gras time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a New Orleans family do it?\u00c2\u00a0 All the parades, all the loot, all the accessories&#8230; we must tote the costumed kids, the ladders, the stools, the coolers and the snacks&#8230;? This is how we do it. (By the way, yesterday, Kate was a cowgirl and Will was Peter Pan.) I&#8217;m sure others have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,100],"tags":[153,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981"}],"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=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}