{"id":135908,"date":"2026-02-17T07:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135908\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:27:28","slug":"queen-evangeline-parade-rolls-through-downtown-lafayette-on-lundi-gras-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135908\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Evangeline Parade rolls through downtown Lafayette on Lundi Gras | Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAFAYETTE, La. (NEWS 15) \u2014 The Queen&#8217;s Parade rolled through downtown Lafayette on Lundi Gras, captivating onlookers.<\/p>\n<p>The parade, which honors Queen Evangeline, featured 14 krewes and is a long-standing tradition in the Hub City.<\/p>\n<p>As the parade made its way from Pontiac Point to Cajun Field, spectators eagerly waved for beads from the krewe floats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Krewe de Attakapas is so ready to ride,&#8221; said Kristin Bodin with the Krewe of Attakapas. &#8220;We have three floats tonight. We invite everybody out to enjoy this beautiful weather.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Mardi Gras festivities are set to continue with more celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>A.I. assisted with the formatting of this story.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kadn.com\/site\/ai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0to see how News 15 uses A.I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAFAYETTE, La. (NEWS 15) \u2014 The Queen&#8217;s Parade rolled through downtown Lafayette on Lundi Gras, captivating onlookers. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[610,53353,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-135908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-local","9":"tag-mardi-gras","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}