{"id":163,"date":"2013-02-12T17:58:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T17:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-02-12T17:58:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T17:58:46","slug":"mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/2013\/02\/12\/mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know more about \u201cMardi Gras?\u201d\u00a0 Here\u2019s some resources below to help you become more of an expert on the celebration taking place all over the world today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start with a search for \u201cMardi Gras\u201d in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.credoreference.com\/search.do?query=Mardi+Gras&amp;view=facet&amp;x=67&amp;y=14\">Credo Reference<\/a><\/strong>, a database of over 600 reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other archives.<\/li>\n<li>Go more in-depth in this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=a9h&amp;AN=31639119&amp;site=ehost-live\">article<\/a><\/strong> from 2008 about the recovery of the Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, as well as the history of the evolution of the festival beginning in the late 1840s.<a href=\"http:\/\/louisdl.louislibraries.org\/cdm\/singleitem\/collection\/p15140coll40\/id\/215\/rec\/2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-165\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-165 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" title=\"Briton, Charles. (1882). &quot;Proteus.&quot;  [Digital image.]  Retrieved from Tulane University's Carnival Collection, accessed: http:\/\/cdm16313.contentdm.oclc.org\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/p15140coll40\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/02\/Proteus.jpg?resize=287%2C228\" width=\"287\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>View historical costumes, krewes, and float designs from the 1870s to the 1970\u2019s at Tulane University\u2019s digital <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/digitallibrary.tulane.edu\/collection?id=3\">Carnival Collection<\/a><\/strong>, a free resource of digital images.<\/li>\n<li>Or, just listen to some great Zydeco music by checking out Buckwheat Zydeco\u2019s, \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/webvoyage.atu.edu\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=154498\">Ultimate C<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/webvoyage.atu.edu\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=154498\">ollection<\/a><\/strong>\u201d available to all library users in the Music Lab on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> floor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Laissez les bons temps rouler!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know more about \u201cMardi Gras?\u201d\u00a0 Here\u2019s some resources below to help you become more of an expert on the celebration taking place all over the world today. Start with a search for \u201cMardi Gras\u201d in Credo Reference, a database of over 600 reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other archives. Go more in-depth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3lPyb-2D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}