{"id":25776,"date":"2019-02-17T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25776"},"modified":"2019-02-17T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:32:15","slug":"mardi-gras-sizzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mardi-gras-sizzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras Sizzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/smargra.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Mardi Gras, California style<\/p>\n<p>Life is one Big Party in California where we go from holidays to festivals &#8212; seamlessly celebrating each week&#8217;s favored dances, food &amp; drinks &#8212; while donning appropriate apparel or finery for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming events such as Mardi Gras, St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo and Memorial Day are several &#8220;Red Letter Days&#8221; celebrated \u00a0throughout the state. While Mardi Gras, which falls on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, isn&#8217;t one of the state&#8217;s biggest, it still offers enough partying for those who choose to stay home rather than travel to New Orleans or Rio where it takes place on a grand scale. You won&#8217;t find anything that quite compares with those massive gatherings but in California you can still samba and wear beads.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-mardi-gras.html\">Mardi Gras Happenings<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Arcadia&#8217;s Mardi Gras at Santa Anita Racetrack March 2<\/li>\n<li>Calistoga&#8217;s\u00a0Evangeline Mardi Gras Celebration March 9, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Clarksburg&#8217;s\u00a0Brazilian Carnaval at the Old Sugar Mill March 2<\/li>\n<li>El Centro&#8217;s\u00a0Mardi Gras Light Parade &amp; Street Festival February 23<\/li>\n<li>Long Beach\u00a0Mardi Gras Parade at Rainbow Harbor &#8211; Shoreline Village\u00a0March 2, free<\/li>\n<li>Long Beach\u00a0Mardi Gras Krewe Ball March 9 at Queen Mary<\/li>\n<li>Oakland Mardi Gras at The New Parish March 5<\/li>\n<li>Redondo Beach\u00a0Brazilian Carnaval March 2 produced by Brazilian Nites at Samba<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento Old Town Mardi Gras Festival and free Mardi Bark Parade March 2<\/li>\n<li>San Diego Hillcrest Mardi Gras March 5<\/li>\n<li>San Diego Gaslamp\u00a0Mardi Gras Beads Bites and Booze<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco&#8217;s\u00a0Mardi Gras in the Fillmore March 5<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco Mission District&#8217;s Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday\u00a0Carnaval March 5, free to all!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: Mardi Gras, California style Life is one Big Party in California where we go from holidays to festivals &#8212; seamlessly celebrating each week&#8217;s favored dances, food &amp; drinks &#8212; while donning appropriate apparel or finery for the occasion. Upcoming events such as Mardi Gras, St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo and Memorial Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25778,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776\/revisions\/25778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}