{"id":440354,"date":"2010-03-17T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fafbe2c970c"},"modified":"2010-03-17T19:42:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:42:14","slug":"st-patricks-day-parade-scrapped-in-l-a-but-the-party-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/440354","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade scrapped in L.A., but the party goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a94b9cc0970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"La-0317-pin01_kzg6ienc\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a94b9cc0970b image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a94b9cc0970b-800wi\" title=\"La-0317-pin01_kzg6ienc\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/><\/br> Los Angeles city officials scrapped plans for downtown&#8217;s\u00a0annual St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade this year because of budget cuts, but revelers looking to celebrate the Irish holiday have other options.<\/p>\n<p>A Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day festival at downtown&#8217;s L.A. Live entertainment complex will be held Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., including a beer garden, traditional Irish food and performances by bagpipers. <\/p>\n<p>And then there are the city&#8217;s Irish bars. Two of them in the Fairfax district,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tombergins.com\/\" >Tom Bergin&#8217;s Tavern<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mollymalonesla.com\/\">Molly Malones<\/a>, opened at 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>City officials have said they thought it would appear unseemly to spend money on traffic control for a parade in the midst of a growing budget crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kate Linthicum <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Tommy O&#8217;Farell, left, and Kathleen Merideth get into the sprit at L.A. Live on Wednesday. (Mark Boster \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles city officials scrapped plans for downtown&#8217;s\u00a0annual St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade this year because of budget cuts, but revelers looking to celebrate the Irish holiday have other options. A Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day festival at downtown&#8217;s L.A. Live entertainment complex will be held Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., including a beer garden, traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}