{"id":233229,"date":"2026-02-14T06:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/brazil-6-million-expected-at-rio-carnival\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:20:33","slug":"brazil-6-million-expected-at-rio-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/brazil-6-million-expected-at-rio-carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: 6 million expected at Rio Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Friday evening marked the opening of the annual carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, with an estimated six million revelers expected to flood the city\u2019s exuberant street parties, where troupes of musicians, percussionists, and stilt performers attract vast crowds of glitter-covered, often scantily clad partygoers, as this year\u2019s festivities also pay tribute to Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, honored with a towering 22-meter metal figure, symbolizing the three-time leader\u2019s enduring presence over both Brazil\u2019s political life and the streets of Rio. Gabrielle Nadler reports.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday evening marked the opening of the annual carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, with an estimated six million revelers expected to flood the city\u2019s exuberant street parties, where troupes of musicians, percussionists, and stilt performers attract vast crowds of glitter-covered, often scantily clad partygoers, as this year\u2019s festivities also pay tribute to Luiz In\u00e1cio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-233229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}