{"id":4228,"date":"2012-02-04T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2012-02-04T06:17:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T06:17:03","slug":"technology-moves-ahead-krewe-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=4228","title":{"rendered":"Technology Moves Ahead Krewe Communications!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My own krewe, <a title=\"Krewe du Vieux\" href=\"http:\/\/kreweduvieux.org\" target=\"_blank\">Krewe du Vieux<\/a>, has a text message list for many personnel, including Referees. This is a long overdue improvement in parade time krewe decision making. Due to the instantaneous nature of text messaging, changes in scheduling, etc. can be distributed immediately. During a parade, the bands, crowds and krewe members make a big ruckus. Phones cannot always be heard, and vibrating phones merge into other vibrations from bass\/snare drums, brass and woodwind instruments, crowds screaming, etc. The party is at <a title=\"Re Store of Habitat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.habitat-nola.org\/restore\" target=\"_blank\">Re Store of Habitat. <\/a><a title=\"Walter Wolfman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.walterwolfmanwashington.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Wolfman <\/a>is playing with Fred Wesley !!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4235\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/KdV-float-4-20102.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4235\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4235\" title=\"KdV float 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/KdV-float-4-20102.jpg\" alt=\"KdV float 2010\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/KdV-float-4-20102.jpg 640w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/KdV-float-4-20102-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KdV float 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>KdV is a very old fashioned krewe, it&#8217;s the only donkey driven parade in Orleans Parish during Carnival. They are allowed to march in the French Quarter and Marigny because of their historic scale. There is no doubt their biting political humor is more ribald than all other parades. It&#8217;s the only &#8216;adult&#8217; parade during Carnival.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4232\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Title-float-2011.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4232\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4232\" title=\"Title float 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Title-float-2011.jpg\" alt=\"Title float 2011\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Title-float-2011.jpg 640w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Title-float-2011-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Title float 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My own krewe, Krewe du Vieux, has a text message list for many personnel, including Referees. This is a long overdue improvement in parade time krewe decision making. Due to the instantaneous nature of text messaging, changes in scheduling, etc. can be distributed immediately. During a parade, the bands, crowds and krewe members make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[214,89,4,9,136],"tags":[867,869,1132,116,866,868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228"}],"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=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4252,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}