{"id":1878,"date":"2010-06-19T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T14:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2010-06-19T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T14:07:07","slug":"mardi-gras-parades-in-slidell-should-pay-their-own-way-krewes-are-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras parades in Slidell should pay their own way, krewes are told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting with Slidell krewe captains on Tuesday, the city\u2019s events  committee proposed that krewes pay the city 25 percent of their parade  costs in 2011, with their contribution increasing to 50 percent the  second year and to 75 percent in three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone calls<a title=\"Mardi Gras\" href=\"http:\/\/carnivalneworleans.com\" target=\"_blank\"> Mardi Gras <\/a>the largest free party in the world but it\u2019s not free,\u201d Slidell City  Councilman Bill Borchert said.<\/p>\n<p>After krewe captains noted that many of their members have already paid  dues for next year, the committee agreed not to have any new fees go  into effect until the 2012 Carnival season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re getting to the  point where we can\u2019t afford it anymore,\u201d Slidell Councilman Landon  Cusimano said. \u201cIt\u2019s this or nothing at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting with Slidell krewe captains on Tuesday, the city\u2019s events committee proposed that krewes pay the city 25 percent of their parade costs in 2011, with their contribution increasing to 50 percent the second year and to 75 percent in three years. \u201cEveryone calls Mardi Gras the largest free party in the world but it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4,9,107],"tags":[396,394,1122,397,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878"}],"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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}