{"id":51,"date":"2014-02-25T22:56:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T22:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79gifts.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2014-02-25T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T22:56:24","slug":"mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketworks.biz\/viewitem.cfm?itemid=66\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19 alignright\" alt=\"mardi-gras2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mardi-gras2-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, pre-Katrina, Sandi and I had the opportunity to go to New Orleans in the weeks before Mardi Gras. \u00a0We stayed in a lovely Bed and Breakfast, visited a float factory (who knew?), wandered around the French Quarter and took part of much of what New Orleans had to offer.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I have created a <a href=\"http:\/\/79gifts.com\/viewitem.cfm?itemid=66\">Mardi Gras basket, <\/a>hearkening back to that trip. \u00a0It has beignet mix and chicory coffee from Cafe du Monde, Hurricane mix and jambalaya mix. \u00a0We pair that with a wide assortment of celebration worthy snacks for a festive off season gift. \u00a0This is a great way to send that thank you gift that you may have overlooked during the holiday season. \u00a0 \u00a0Mardi Gras is Tuesday March 5th this year, so don&#8217;t delay!<\/p>\n<p>Laissez les bons temps rouler!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, pre-Katrina, Sandi and I had the opportunity to go to New Orleans in the weeks before Mardi Gras. \u00a0We stayed in a lovely Bed and Breakfast, visited a float factory (who knew?), wandered around the French Quarter and took part of much of what New Orleans had to offer. This year, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[2,13,16],"tags":[23,24,25,41,42,46,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}