{"id":1229,"date":"2013-01-11T17:25:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T23:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelgreenlief.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2013-01-11T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T23:25:46","slug":"have-you-heard-of-the-mummers-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/2013\/01\/11\/have-you-heard-of-the-mummers-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Heard of the Mummers Parade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I do not live on the East Coast, I do not get all the news that others might get. I have never heard of anything called a Mummer&#8217;s Parade, but it is a really big deal in Philadelphia every year. It has been going on since the 1800&#8217;s. So why have I never heard of it? This is like Philadelphia&#8217;s Mardi Gras &#8211; big floats, fabulous costumes, music, dancing &#8211; a huge all day street party. They even judge the entries and give out trophies to five different Divisions of parades entries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comic Division<\/li>\n<li>Wench Brigades<\/li>\n<li>Fancy Division<\/li>\n<li>String Bands<\/li>\n<li>Fancy Brigades<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never even heard of the word mummer, so I looked it up. &#8220;A masked or costumed merrymaker.&#8221; So I guess all the Mardi Gras and Carnival parade people are technically mummers, too.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know that I will ever have a chance to be in Philadelphia on New Year&#8217;s Day, but if I do have the chance, I will go with the plan to see the Mummers, too. The Mardi Gras parade I saw was so much fun! I wish I had a fancy costume and could party with people at one of the carnival balls. That would be something to look forward to all year long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I do not live on the East Coast, I do not get all the news that others might get. I have never heard of anything called a Mummer&#8217;s Parade, but it is a really big deal in Philadelphia every year. It has been going on since the 1800&#8217;s. So why have I never heard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/2013\/01\/11\/have-you-heard-of-the-mummers-parade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Have You Heard of the Mummers Parade?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,13,20],"tags":[36,49,83,104],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-holidays","category-life","category-travel-and-vacation","tag-carnival","tag-costumes","tag-holiday","tag-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}