{"id":177279,"date":"2026-02-14T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177279\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:11:10","slug":"long-beach-senior-citizens-enjoy-mardi-gras-festivities-at-third-annual-senior-prom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177279\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach senior citizens enjoy Mardi Gras festivities at third annual senior prom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 It was a day of joy and celebration as people at the Long Beach Senior Center got up and moving Friday at the third annual senior prom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"It was a day of joy and celebration as people at the Long Beach Senior Center got up and...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/QZG2XJPPUJGSPOVYWQEHLN67VQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>It was a day of joy and celebration as people at the Long Beach Senior Center got up and moving Friday at the third annual senior prom.(WLOX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Members of the Long Beach High Student Council put on a show, performing line dances for the attendees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Some of the attendees got to show off their best dance moves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Some of the attendees got to show off their best dance moves.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/YFCAPMGKJVA57ICY6QAL2FHJPA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Some of the attendees got to show off their best dance moves.(WLOX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Besides the dancing, participants played bingo and enjoyed wearing Mardi Gras masks and eating king cake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a while since I been over here, But I am so glad I came today, makes me think about when I was young and could get out there, I just sit and clap now, but It\u2019s still enjoyable to see them,\u201d Dorris Freeman said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Members of Long Beach high Student Council put on a show, performing line dances for the...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/J4AJOFR3EVEBXMZWWE5JFHGQ5E.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Members of Long Beach high Student Council put on a show, performing line dances for the attendees.(WLOX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Each year, the Student Council organizes and collects money to put on the dance.<\/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) \u2014 It was a day of joy and celebration as people at the Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,29978,84310],"class_list":{"0":"post-177279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news","11":"tag-mardi-gras","12":"tag-senior-prom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177279","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=177279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}