{"id":4353,"date":"2018-09-17T14:21:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T21:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2018-10-18T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T21:25:43","slug":"halloween-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/halloween-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/togetherwenola.com\/halloween\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/HalloweenNewOrleans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/HalloweenNewOrleans.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/HalloweenNewOrleans-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/HalloweenNewOrleans-768x353.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>Can you imagine a better place to spend Halloween than in New Orleans?&nbsp; That&#8217;s what I thought when I was invited to a wedding in that city which takes place the weekend before.&nbsp; The timing is fortuitous &#8211; turns out that is when the big gay festivities take place.&nbsp; <strong><em>Halloween New Orleans Carnival<\/em> <\/strong>serves two major purposes &#8211; to celebrate the holiday and to raise money for a worthy cause.&nbsp; All proceeds benefit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectlazarus.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Project Lazarus<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, assisted living for people with HIV\/AIDS.&nbsp; The weekend kicks off with the <em>Lazarus Ball<\/em> on Friday night, the <em>Main Event<\/em> (subtitled <strong><em>Sideshow<\/em><\/strong>) on Saturday, and <strong><em>Funhouse<\/em><\/strong>, their Sunday pier dance.&nbsp; Needless to say, the event attracts people from all over the world and I am told is one of the most spectacular events on the circuit.&nbsp; Tickets are available now at discounted rates, so grab them up at <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/togetherwenola.com\/halloween\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TogetherWeNola.com\/Halloween<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine a better place to spend Halloween than in New Orleans?&nbsp; That&#8217;s what I thought when I was invited to a wedding in that city which takes place the weekend before.&nbsp; The timing is fortuitous &#8211; turns out that is when the big gay festivities take place.&nbsp; Halloween New Orleans Carnival serves two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}