{"id":4403,"date":"2012-02-13T03:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T03:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2012-02-13T03:28:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T03:28:27","slug":"the-democratization-of-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=4403","title":{"rendered":"The Democratization of Carnival!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chewbacchus<\/a> costs $42 for an adult, and $21for a child. My own Krewe du Vieux<\/a> is under $200. I don’t know what ‘tit R\u0259x<\/a> costs, but I know it’s very cheap.<\/p>\n

What all this means is you can have one hell of a time from the inside of Mardi Gras krewe for not too many shekels. That’s real democracy in action!<\/p>\n

Back in the day, krewes were both exclusive and costly. A super krewe such as Bacchus, Orpheus, and Endymion cost a small fortune, just for the throws. Is it more enjoyable to ride with a big, expensive krewe?\u00a0 I think not, since I have ridden with Tucks several times and with KdV more than that.<\/p>\n

All krewes are fun, and there are all kinds of krewes. Depending on your budget, there’s a lot of fun to be had. In my opinion, it’s a lot of fun to experience Carnival from a spectator’s vantage point, but it’s even more fun to ride or walk with your own krewe.<\/p>\n

\"Float<\/a>

Float 4, Krewe du Vieux 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tit<\/a>

'tit R\u0259x Float<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Krewe<\/a>

Krewe of Chewbacchus Inaugural March Participants photo Ian McNulty <\/p><\/div>\n

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Chewbacchus costs $42 for an adult, and $21for a child. My own Krewe du Vieux is under $200. I don’t know what ‘tit R\u0259x costs, but I know it’s very cheap. What all this means is you can have one hell of a time from the inside of Mardi Gras krewe for not too many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,89,864,107],"tags":[890,27,1122,891,59,1132,1120,1121,355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403"}],"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=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/4418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}