{"id":602,"date":"2010-01-07T07:27:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T14:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neworleansmusicman.wordpress.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2010-01-07T07:27:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T14:27:32","slug":"phunny-phorty-phellows-kick-off-carnival-2010-on-historic-st-charles-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Phunny Phorty Phellows kick off Carnival 2010 on historic St. Charles Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dominic Massa \/ Eyewitness News, photo by Dominic Massa<br \/>\nPosted on January 6, 2010 at 10:45 PM<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_603\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/neworleansmusicman.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/phellows-2010.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-603\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/neworleansmusicman.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/phellows-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Phunny Phorty Phellows 2010 ride on St.Charles Streecar\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"size-full wp-image-603\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/phellows-2010.jpg 600w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/phellows-2010-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2010 Phunny Phorty Phellows <\/p><\/div>\n<p>NEW ORLEANS &#8212; The Phunny Phorty Phellows had their annual streetcar ride Wednesday night to kick off the start of the 2010 Carnival season.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time since before Hurricane Katrina that the Phellows rode the St. Charles Avenue route.<\/p>\n<p>Fate determines whom the Phellows select as their Queen and \u201cBoss,\u201d the krewe\u2019s equivalent of a king: they pass around two king cakes with babies inside, and whoever gets them becomes royalty.<\/p>\n<p>The Phellows were revived in 1981 after they ceased parading in 1898. Their parades focus on topical themes and satire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dominic Massa \/ Eyewitness News, photo by Dominic Massa Posted on January 6, 2010 at 10:45 PM NEW ORLEANS &#8212; The Phunny Phorty Phellows had their annual streetcar ride Wednesday night to kick off the start of the 2010 Carnival season. It was the first time since before Hurricane Katrina that the Phellows rode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[38,101,1142,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}