{"id":126,"date":"2010-02-08T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/the-joy-of-victory-a-new-orleans-postcard.html"},"modified":"2010-02-08T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:59:19","slug":"the-joy-of-victory-a-new-orleans-postcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/the-joy-of-victory-a-new-orleans-postcard.html","title":{"rendered":"The joy of victory: a New Orleans postcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care what you&#8217;re doing, stop right now and watch this video postcard from New Orleans last night, passed along by a fellow Louisiana expat. Imagine the joy of these people, who have been down for so long, but who last night were on top of the world. Watch especially the bus driver &#8212; if that man can&#8217;t make you happy just by looking at him, you&#8217;re beyond help. Oh, oh, oh, how I wish I were in NOLA right now&#8230;<object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9287905&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9287905&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/9287905\">Saints Superbowl Victory Celebration<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user3082560\">Cottage Films<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care what you&#8217;re doing, stop right now and watch this video postcard from New Orleans last night, passed along by a fellow Louisiana expat. 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Watch especially the bus driver &#8212;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The joy of victory: a New Orleans postcard - Rod Dreher<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/the-joy-of-victory-a-new-orleans-postcard.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The joy of victory: a New Orleans postcard - Rod Dreher\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I don&#8217;t care what you&#8217;re doing, stop right now and watch this video postcard from New Orleans last night, passed along by a fellow Louisiana expat. 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