{"id":3055,"date":"2011-03-06T21:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T21:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2011-04-01T20:33:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T20:33:30","slug":"longest-parade-day-in-many-years-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=3055","title":{"rendered":"LONGEST PARADE DAY IN MANY YEARS BEGINS!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hosted by <a title=\"icorp.net\" href=\"http:\/\/icorp.net\" target=\"_blank\">icorp.net<\/a>, and they have an historic Mardi Gras site at <a title=\"carnivalneworleans.com\" href=\"http:\/\/carnivalneworleans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">carnivalneworleans.com<\/a>, and have an old web cam in the French Quarter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carnivalneworleans.com\/live.html\"> Web cam on Bourbon St. located at Tropical Isle!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5:22 &amp; Bacchus is nowhere in sight. WDSU&#8217;s Parade tracker is still messaging me about Thoth. Time flies when you have 5 parades in a row, including two very very large Super Krewes ending up the whole shebang! 5:36, Bacchus is rolling, according to <a title=\"WDSU-TV's Parade Tracker Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wdsu.com\/mardigras\/26996580\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">WDSU-TV&#8217;s parade tracker service. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Endymion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.endymion.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Endymion<\/a> gave up its beloved Canal Boulevard route for the traditional\u00a0 St. Charles Avenue. They will follow <a title=\"Bacchus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kreweofbacchus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bacchus <\/a>for a very long day of parading, starting with <a title=\"Okeanos\" href=\"http:\/\/kreweofokeanos.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Okeanos<\/a>,<a title=\"Mid-City\" href=\"http:\/\/kreweofmidcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Mid-City,<\/a> &amp;<a title=\"Thoth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thothkrewe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Thoth<\/a>! Thoth runs a long route, and takes over 3 hours to run. If Bacchus starts roughly at 3 pm, Endymion can begin at Bacchus&#8217; old time of 5 pm. Then the night wouldn&#8217;t run by very much, if things go smoothly, which they probably\u00a0 won&#8217;t. Without being unduly pessimistic, the parading night with probably run into the wee wee hours of the night!!<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time since Katrina (2005) that Endymion has changed routes and it&#8217;s not very popular with the legions of Mid City Endymion fans that LOVE the 1 major parade that doesn&#8217;t go down St. Charles Avenue!\u00a0 Plus, a ton of businesses count on the Endymion business boost their business through the roof temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>Okeanos has begun, as has Mid-City. Thoth will follow, then Bacchus and Endymion. The longest parade day in recent history is underway!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3059\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Endymion.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3059\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3059\" title=\"Endymion\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Endymion.jpg\" alt=\"Endymion\" width=\"433\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Endymion.jpg 433w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Endymion-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Endymion<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n  google_ad_client = \"pub-2308209459674001\"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = \"728x90_as\"; google_ad_type = \"text_image\"; google_ad_channel =\"\"; google_color_border = \"CCCCCC\"; google_color_bg = \"C2C2C2\"; google_color_link = \"000000\"; google_color_url = \"666666\"; google_color_text = \"333333\";\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3064\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elijah-Wood-as-Bacchus.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3064\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3064\" title=\"Elijah Wood as Bacchus\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elijah-Wood-as-Bacchus.jpg\" alt=\"Elijah Wood as Bacchus\" width=\"575\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elijah-Wood-as-Bacchus.jpg 575w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elijah-Wood-as-Bacchus-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elijah-Wood-as-Bacchus-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elijah-Wood-as-Bacchus-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elijah Wood as Bacchus<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3067\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bacchasaurus.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3067\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3067\" title=\"Bacchasaurus\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bacchasaurus.jpg\" alt=\"Bacchasaurus\" width=\"381\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bacchasaurus.jpg 381w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bacchasaurus-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bacchasaurus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n google_ad_client = \"pub-2308209459674001\"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = \"728x90_as\"; google_ad_type = \"text_image\"; google_ad_channel =\"\"; google_color_border = \"CCCCCC\"; google_color_bg = \"C2C2C2\"; google_color_link = \"000000\"; google_color_url = \"666666\"; google_color_text = \"333333\";\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Endymion is arguably the largest krewe in the whole New Orleans Mardi Gras, and to roll last after Okeanos, Mid-City, Thoth, then Bacchus before starting must have been quite a blow of weather reality to swallow. As it&#8217;s pouring at 1:30 pm a few hours before Endymion was supposed to roll, it looks like the move to skip a day was wise. Only tomorrow will tell, but from today&#8217;s downpour, it looks wise indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hosted by icorp.net, and they have an historic Mardi Gras site at carnivalneworleans.com, and have an old web cam in the French Quarter: Web cam on Bourbon St. located at Tropical Isle!! 5:22 &amp; Bacchus is nowhere in sight. WDSU&#8217;s Parade tracker is still messaging me about Thoth. Time flies when you have 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,4,107,128],"tags":[26,27,32,695,59,80,119,345,344,698,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055"}],"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=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}