{"id":2624,"date":"2026-02-12T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/2624\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:19:14","slug":"new-bern-mardi-gras-celebrations-back-for-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/2624\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern Mardi Gras celebrations back for another year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; There\u2019s no need to head to the French Quarter this Fat Tuesday, as the New Bern Mardi Gras parade and celebration is back for the 11th year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It all kicks off Saturday, February 14, at 10:30 a.m. in downtown New Bern with the parade, followed by the block party on Middle and Pollock Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Attendees can enjoy live music by No Quarter Brass Band and Los Sabrosos del Son. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Art and craft vendors, food trucks, a family-friendly KidsZone, local vendors, and interactive activities for everyone will also be available throughout downtown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Event organizers joined ENC at Three to discuss all the fun and who it\u2019s benefiting. To watch the full interview, see the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Attendees are encouraged to dress up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; There\u2019s no need to head to the French Quarter this Fat Tuesday, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,2710,2711,483,2712,2707,2709,117,107,118,2708,105],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-celebration","tag-celebrations","tag-enc","tag-enc-at-three","tag-mardi-gras","tag-mardi-gras-parade","tag-nc","tag-new-bern","tag-north-carolina","tag-parade","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}