{"id":4536,"date":"2012-02-21T13:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T18:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:37:34","slug":"mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/clown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4538\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"Joseph Grimaldi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/clown-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Grimaldi\" width=\"104\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/clown-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/clown-126x150.jpg 126w, https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/clown.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 104px) 100vw, 104px\" \/><\/a>Apart from religion, one of the themes of Mardi Gras is a reversal of the social order. \u00a0Behind the anonymity of masks, the lower classes could tweak the wealthier, agrarian class without lasting consequence. More than a festival, Mardi Gras historically was a way to relieve social tension.<\/p>\n<p>So what does this have to do with Aikido?<\/p>\n<p>Come to the Wednesday and Thursday evening classes to find out.<\/p>\n<p>And bring your beads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from religion, one of the themes of Mardi Gras is a reversal of the social order. \u00a0Behind the anonymity of masks, the lower classes could tweak the wealthier, agrarian class without lasting consequence. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dojo","category-jerry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}