{"id":94616,"date":"2020-02-21T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=94616"},"modified":"2020-01-19T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T19:58:28","slug":"weekend-open-thread-285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94616","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_94620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94620\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-94620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/getty-new-mardi-gras-beads-589b7a233df78c475897d7a1-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/getty-new-mardi-gras-beads-589b7a233df78c475897d7a1-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/getty-new-mardi-gras-beads-589b7a233df78c475897d7a1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/getty-new-mardi-gras-beads-589b7a233df78c475897d7a1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/getty-new-mardi-gras-beads-589b7a233df78c475897d7a1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mardi Gras beads and eye masks. (Getty\/tripsavvy.com)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I mentioned in January 3&#8217;s Weekend Open Thread, the Mardi Gras Season runs from January 6 through February 25 this year. Mardi Gras is February 25, 2020. February 26, 2020, is Ash Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mardi Gras means &#8220;Fat Tuesday&#8221;. There is a history behind this.<\/p>\n<p>During the medieval period, they didn&#8217;t have the meat processing and refrigeration technology that we have today. Animals, meant for consumption, were killed and processed for long-term storage. They ate this meat throughout the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the Lenten Season, which runs to Holy Thursday. The last part of Holy Week is another season, Easter Tridium. The &#8220;Lenten fast&#8221; runs from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, sans Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>Christians exercised fasting during this season. As Ash Wednesday approached, people faced the reality that non-consumed meats will go bad during Lent. Consumption increased until Mardi Gras. Eating as much of this meat as possible before it goes bad required feasting. People &#8220;fattened up&#8221; until &#8220;Fat Tuesday&#8221;, the\u00a0&#8220;now or never&#8221; day.<\/p>\n<p>This is one story behind the evolution of Mardi Gras. There are other stories. This day is also known as &#8220;Shrove Tuesday&#8221; and &#8220;Pancake Tuesday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not tried a Mardi Gras cake (King Cake), your window of opportunity to try it this year may be closing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Enjoy Your Weekend.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in January 3&#8217;s Weekend Open Thread, the Mardi Gras Season runs from January &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94616\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94621,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94616\/revisions\/94621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}