{"id":3840,"date":"2012-01-07T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2012-01-07T16:42:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T16:42:06","slug":"2012-new-orleans-mardi-gras-forecast-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=3840","title":{"rendered":"2012 New Orleans Mardi Gras Forecast pt 3, 12th Night Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the biggest 12th night weekend in the history of NOLA, there’s no doubt about that. 12th night is always a bit of a big deal, it’s the true launch of the Carnival Season. Add the Saints big playoff game against Detroit tomorrow and the HUGE BCS Championship Bowl on Monday in the Super dome featuring #1 undefeated LSU <\/a>against #2 AL, with 1 loss against LSU 9-6.<\/p>\n

\"LSU<\/a>

LSU Tigers<\/p><\/div>\n

That makes this weekend the biggest 12th night in memory!! We are not done with the huge night, the Phunny Phorty Phellows <\/a>are New Orleans only St. Charles Streetcar<\/a> based parade.<\/p>\n

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\"PPP<\/a>

PPP on the streetcar on 12th night!!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Add to this the next parade, the 45-member\u00a0Krewe de Jeanne D’Arc parade\u00a0<\/a> rides and strolls in its fourth annual parade to honor the Catholic saint.<\/p>\n

\"Krewe<\/a>

Krewe de Jeanne D'arc leading her own parade<\/p><\/div>\n

PARADE BEGINS AT 6 P.M. AT CONTI AND DECATUR<\/a> STREETS (BIENVILLE STATUE<\/strong>)<\/div>\n
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  • THIS YEAR JOAN AND HER SWORD WILL BE BLESSED IN FRONT OF ST LOUIS CATHEDRAL BY MONSIGNOR KERN AT APPROXIMATELY 6:15 P.M.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • CITY PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY KRISTIN GISLESON PALMER’S OFFICE WILL BE READ BY AN ACTOR PORTRAYING THE FOUNDER OF NEW ORLEANS, JEAN-BAPTISTE LE MOYNE, SIEUR DE BIENVILLE, BEFORE THE PARADE DEPARTS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • SIX JOANS ON HORSEBACK:\u00a0 \u00a0OUR MAID OF HONOR, OUR WARRIOR JOAN, OUR “JOANIE ON THE PONY” PORTRAYED BY KRISTIN GISLESON PALMER, AND THREE ADDITIONAL JOANS ON WHITE HORSES WILL HONOR JOAN’S 600TH YEAR!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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        • KING CAKE CEREMONY FOLLOWING THE PARADE WITH SPEECHES IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH BY KREWE KING DAMIEN REGNARD AND KREWE MAID AGGIE BELL AND KING CAKE DONATED BY SUCRE (BUT AS ALWAYS, THE PUBLIC IS ENCOURAGED TO BRING KING CAKES TO EAT AND SHARE!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          The 4th installment of the 2012 Mardi Gras Forecast will be forthcoming in the next few days, after the super exciting weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          This is the biggest 12th night weekend in the history of NOLA, there’s no doubt about that. 12th night is always a bit of a big deal, it’s the true launch of the Carnival Season. Add the Saints big playoff game against Detroit tomorrow and the HUGE BCS Championship Bowl on Monday in the Super […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[814,7,3,214,813,806,807,4,210,9,10,128,134,136,143,304],"tags":[14,815,1171,1170,1142,809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840"}],"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=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}