{"id":1020,"date":"2010-02-06T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T11:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2010-02-06T15:28:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:28:41","slug":"election-day-parades-super-bowl-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Election Day, Parades, Super Bowl Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans is an old town, with a wild and varied history. New Orleans is old enough to have survived French &amp; Spanish rule, the Battle of\u00a0 New Orleans, Northern Occupation under the despot Butler, carpetbaggers, Jim Crow Hurricane Katrina, etc.\u00a0 Now comes the Eve before the Super Bowl, the first time the franchise has ever reached the NFL Pinnacle Game.\u00a0 Post Katrina, New Orleans has again remade itself via the Who Dat Nation, the wildest group of NFL fans in the history of the NFL bar none. Now it&#8217;s the whole nation, thanks to Good Morning America, CNN, and other national media picking up this Who Dat Story.\u00a0 New Orleans is the birthplace of the Who Dat Nation, but America is making the Who Dat Saints their team. Here&#8217;s a picture from the Who Dat Super Bowl Kick Off Parade honoring the late Buddy Diliberto, who claimed when the Saints make the Super Bowl, he&#8217;ll put on a dress. Buddy didn&#8217;t make it, but 1,000&#8217;s of New Orleanians did it for Buddy!\u00a0 Who Dat!! Who Dat!! Go Saints!! Happy Mardi Gras!!<\/p>\n<h2>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1025\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buddy-D-parade.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1025\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1025\" title=\"Buddy D parade\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buddy-D-parade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buddy-D-parade.jpg 604w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buddy-D-parade-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who Dat Super Bowl Kick Off Parade<\/p><\/div><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans is an old town, with a wild and varied history. New Orleans is old enough to have survived French &amp; Spanish rule, the Battle of\u00a0 New Orleans, Northern Occupation under the despot Butler, carpetbaggers, Jim Crow Hurricane Katrina, etc.\u00a0 Now comes the Eve before the Super Bowl, the first time the franchise has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,214,4,9,107],"tags":[288,276,286,1151,290,1144,218,287],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}