{"id":127736,"date":"2026-01-10T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127736\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:51:09","slug":"jeep-a-gras-kicks-off-weekend-mardi-gras-festivities-with-parade-registration-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127736\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeep-A-Gras kicks off weekend Mardi Gras festivities with parade registration in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) &#8211; The spirit of Carnival is taking over the city of Long Beach for Jeep-A-Gras this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Friday, jeepers gathered at Coastal Daiquiri Bar and Grill to register their vehicles for the parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event included a sound system contest, a glow show, and an after party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Organizers said around 90 jeeps were registered for the parade at the event<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Long Beach Carnival Association King-Elect Ryan McMahon said the goal is to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo, our main goal as the Carnival Association of Long Beach is to raise money for multiple charities throughout the community,\u201d McMahon said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been running since July.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jeep-A-Gras Co-chair Joey King said there will be a band playing music for attendees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTomorrow at 10 am, we have the beach crawl, you get to drive on the beach from 10 to 2,\u201d King said. \u201cThen at 6 o\u2019clock is our parade and we line up at 4 at the high school and the parade ends here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Registration will continue on Saturday, the day of the parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) &#8211; The spirit of Carnival is taking over the city of Long Beach for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[65761,131,133,132,29978],"class_list":["post-127736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-jeep-a-gras","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-mardi-gras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}