{"id":218,"date":"2002-08-06T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-06T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/caribana_2002.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:47:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:47:38","slug":"caribana_2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/caribana_2002.html","title":{"rendered":"Too much booty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a reasonably good weekend which included heading out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribana.com\/home.html\" title=\"Caribana website\">Caribana<\/a> parade on Saturday afternoon. I never thought it possible, but there was just <em>too much booty<\/em>. Everyone was dolled up and looking for some action, much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/front\/RTGAM\/20020803\/wcarib\/Front\/homeBN\/breakingnews\" title=\"'The testosterone is flowing'\">this article<\/a> describes.<\/p>\n<p>I find it a little interesting how Caribana, a yearly occurrence, attracts roughly as many people to this city as the Pope&#8217;s visit during World Youth Day, a twice-in-a-lifetime event. Estimates for the Pope&#8217;s WYD mass were around 800,000 while the Globe &#038; Mail article suggests that &#8220;nearly a million&#8221; visitors came to Toronto for Caribana. Meanwhile, we&#8217;re bending over backwards for the WYD visitors but Caribana seems always in danger of folding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a reasonably good weekend which included heading out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribana.com\/home.html\" title=\"Caribana website\">Caribana<\/a> parade on Saturday afternoon. I never thought it possible, but there was just too much booty. Everyone was dolled up and looking for some action, much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/front\/RTGAM\/20020803\/wcarib\/Front\/homeBN\/breakingnews\" title=\"'The testosterone is flowing'\">this article<\/a> describes.<\/p>\n<p>I find it a&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/caribana_2002.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;Too much booty&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}