{"id":595,"date":"2012-02-22T22:51:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T04:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/?p=595"},"modified":"2012-02-22T22:51:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T04:51:48","slug":"big-cheese-at-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/02\/22\/big-cheese-at-mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Cheese at Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-601\" title=\"Mardi Gras\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mardisgras_blue.jpg\" alt=\"Mardi Gras\" width=\"640\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mardisgras_blue.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mardisgras_blue-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our boy Blackie just got back to Chicago after a quick trip to Mardi Gras, where he served as \u201cBig Cheese\u201d at this year\u2019s Krewe of Fromage Parade. This is a huge honor for anyone, but especially for a cat, since Krewe membership is generally restricted to mice\u2014and only those from New Orleans high society, at that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You may notice that the costume Blackie wore as he performed his royal duties bears a slight resemblance to the one worn by \u201cKing\u201d Will Ferrell, who reigned over Sunday\u2019s <a title=\"External Link to Will Ferrell as Bacchus photos opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/gavon\/will-ferrell-was-of-course-the-king-of-mardi-gras\" target=\"_blank\">Krewe of Bacchus Parade<\/a>\u2014a similar event with a few key differences: Including, Will reportedly tossed beads, coins and cowbells into the crowd\u2014not cheese. (What fun is that?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Happily for us, there was a ton of cheese leftover after the celebration, which Blackie filled his suitcase with, and toted home. This meant that on the heels of Fat Tuesday, we all enjoyed a Big Fat Wednesday around here, too. (Likely to be followed by Puffy Thursday, Muffin Top Friday, and Elastic Waistband Saturday.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meanwhile, congratulations, Good King Blackie, on your wonderful and well-deserved honor. Whether it\u2019s on top of a mouse float, all duded up, or under the piano, fast asleep (like you are right now), you definitely rule!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our boy Blackie just got back to Chicago after a quick trip to Mardi Gras, where he served as \u201cBig Cheese\u201d at this year\u2019s Krewe of Fromage Parade. This is a huge honor for anyone, but especially for a cat, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/02\/22\/big-cheese-at-mardi-gras\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,51],"tags":[12,18,101,37,104,102,8,103,105],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats-and-mice","category-popular-culture","tag-blackie-2","tag-celebrity","tag-cheese","tag-entertainment","tag-krewe-of-bacchus","tag-mardi-gras","tag-mice","tag-new-orleans","tag-will-ferrell"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}