{"id":6642,"date":"2015-05-02T19:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T19:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2015-05-02T19:11:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T19:11:21","slug":"mardi-gras-beads-as-a-new-orleans-pot-hole-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=6642","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras Beads As A New Orleans Pot Hole Solution!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6643\" style=\"width: 746px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beads-filling-pot-hole.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6643\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6643\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beads-filling-pot-hole.jpg\" alt=\"Mardi Gras Beads Filing New Orleans Pot Holes!\" width=\"736\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beads-filling-pot-hole.jpg 736w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beads-filling-pot-hole-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mardi Gras Beads Filing New Orleans Pot Holes!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6649\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beads-as-Pot-Hole-Solution.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6649\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6649\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beads-as-Pot-Hole-Solution.jpg\" alt=\"Beads as Pot Hole Solution\" width=\"385\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beads-as-Pot-Hole-Solution.jpg 385w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beads-as-Pot-Hole-Solution-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beads as Pot Hole Solution<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6644\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beads-filling-pot-hole-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6644\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6644\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beads-filling-pot-hole-2.jpg\" alt=\"Beads as a Pot Hole Solution\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beads as a Pot Hole Solution<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New Orleanians are a very creative lot. Most us have a bag of two of Mardi Gras beads in the closet or attic. Once beads are exposed to the weather for a while, the paint wears off but the beads endure for a long time. Since Hurricane Katrina, the city has had FEMA money to fix a lot of major and minor city streams but so many more haven&#8217;t been fixed and are one of the banes of our existence in any older city in America. Combining beads and pot holes makes perfect sense to me. It&#8217;s a very quick and somewhat lasting solution.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6645\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mobile-AL-Political-Cartoon.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6645\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6645\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mobile-AL-Political-Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"Mobile, AL Political Cartoon\" width=\"620\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mobile-AL-Political-Cartoon.jpg 620w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mobile-AL-Political-Cartoon-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mobile, AL Political Cartoon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Political Cartoon from a<a title=\"al.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2014\/03\/mobile_should_fill_its_pothole.html\" target=\"_blank\">l.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleanians are a very creative lot. Most us have a bag of two of Mardi Gras beads in the closet or attic. Once beads are exposed to the weather for a while, the paint wears off but the beads endure for a long time. Since Hurricane Katrina, the city has had FEMA money to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1096,5],"tags":[1120,1098,1121,1097],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642"}],"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=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6650,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions\/6650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}