{"id":2732,"date":"2011-02-15T20:46:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T20:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2011-02-15T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T21:03:00","slug":"andy-garcia-to-reign-as-bacchus-xliii-for-mardi-gras-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=2732","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Heartthrob Andy Garcia to Reign as Bacchus XLIII For Mardi Gras 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2735\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Andy-Garcia-Bacchus-2011.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2735\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2735\" title=\"Andy Garcia  Bacchus 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Andy-Garcia-Bacchus-2011.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Garcia  Bacchus 2011\" width=\"399\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Andy-Garcia-Bacchus-2011.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Andy-Garcia-Bacchus-2011-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Garcia  Bacchus 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Actor<a title=\"Andy Garcia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000412\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Andy Garcia<\/a> will reign as <a title=\"Bacchus XLIII\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kreweofbacchus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bacchus XLIII<\/a> when the krewe rolls March 6 as part of the <a title=\"Mardi Gras 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/carnivalneworleans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mardi Gras 2011<\/a> celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His fame and his personality will assure that he is a great Bacchus  King who helps make the 2011 Mardi Gras stupendous, highly successful  and memorable,&#8221; said said Owen Brennan III, executive director of the  Krewe of Bacchus.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe award for  his role in &#8220;The Godfather III&#8221; in 1990. He was also nominated for  several awards for his portrayal of casino owner Terry Benedict in  &#8220;Oceans 11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the 2011 Bacchus parade will be a salute to the World  War II generation, known as &#8220;the Greatest Generation.&#8221; Blaine Kern float  makers have worked closely with staff members at the World War II  Museum to assure that all references to World War II and U.S. armed  forces are authentic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Andy Garcia will reign as Bacchus XLIII when the krewe rolls March 6 as part of the Mardi Gras 2011 celebration. &#8220;His fame and his personality will assure that he is a great Bacchus King who helps make the 2011 Mardi Gras stupendous, highly successful and memorable,&#8221; said said Owen Brennan III, executive director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,4,9,107],"tags":[631,632,432,1119,1120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732"}],"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=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}