{"id":7348,"date":"2015-09-13T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2015-09-13T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T15:00:18","slug":"mardi-gras-at-lacf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2015\/09\/13\/mardi-gras-at-lacf\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras at LACF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7377\" title=\"mardisgras3\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mardisgras3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"LA County Fair Mardi Gras\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\nWe took you <a title=\"Flower &amp; Garden Pavilion Mardi Gras \" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?tag=flower-garden-pavilion\" target=\"_blank\">behind-the-scenes<\/a> of Mardi Gras at our Flower &amp; Garden Pavilion, and now it&#8217;s time to reveal the finished product! Take a look at our very own Bourbon Street&#8230;<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re greeted by an array of giant, glittering Mardi Gras masks, surrounded by equally colorful roses and carnations, as you walk up the path to the Pavilion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mardisgras1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7374\" title=\"Flower and Garden Pavilion Mardi Gras\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mardisgras1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Mardi Gras LA County Fair \" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOnce inside, the sounds of old time jazz and brass bands fill the air as your eyes are greeted by a dazzling display of flora &amp; fauna, and enough decor to have you believing you&#8217;ve been transported straight to the French Corridor.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mardisgras5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7376\" title=\"mardisgras5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mardisgras5-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFirst to catch your eye are the King &amp; Queen of Mardi Gras, holding court as they oversee their kingdom of orchids, roses and carnations.<br \/>\nTwo proud peacocks show off their jeweled feathers atop their pedestals. Turn around and you&#8217;ll see a waterfall cascading in hues of purple and green, staying true to the traditional Mardi Gras colors.<br \/>\nIf you look to the right or the left of the waterfall, you&#8217;ll see displays paying homage to jazz greats, like Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis.<br \/>\nOther beautiful displays are tucked into grottos lining the sides of the Pavilion. A New Orleans cafe (by the way, you can buy beignets at the Fair!), a beautiful display of King Cakes (Sir Blogsalot gave the low-down on how those work <a title=\"Flower &amp; Garden Pavilion Mardi Gras\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?tag=flower-garden-pavilion\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), and bejeweled frames, flower pots and masks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mardisgras4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7378\" title=\"mardisgras4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mardisgras4-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"LA County Fair Mardi Gras \" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe haven&#8217;t even looked outside yet, but we heard rumors that the Atrium has transformed into a bayou of animals, plants and reptiles galore. Stay tuned for when we hit that one!<br \/>\n<em><strong>Have you checked out the Flower &amp; Garden Pavilion this year? What did you think? Tell us in the comments below!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took you behind-the-scenes of Mardi Gras at our Flower &amp; Garden Pavilion, and now it&#8217;s time to reveal the finished product! Take a look at our very own Bourbon Street&#8230; You&#8217;re greeted by an array of giant, glittering Mardi Gras masks, surrounded by equally colorful roses and carnations, as you walk up the path&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[427,428,614,708,801],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flower-garden","category-funatthefair","tag-flower-garden-pavilion","tag-flower-garden-pavilion-mardi-gras","tag-la-county-fair","tag-lacf","tag-mardi-gras"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}