{"id":891420,"date":"2026-02-10T05:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/national-limbo-competition-returns-for-carnival-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T05:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:12:16","slug":"national-limbo-competition-returns-for-carnival-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/national-limbo-competition-returns-for-carnival-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"National Limbo Competition returns for Carnival 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, limbo in Trinidad and Tobago has survived in fragments. A showcase moment on the Best Village stage, a crowd-pleasing break in a Carnival launch, a tourist spectacle abroad performed by TT nationals far from home.<br \/>\nOnce a fiercely contested national competition, the artform slipped quietly out of the spotlight after 2008&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2026\/01\/08\/national-limbo-competition-returns-for-carnival-2026\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Yvonne Webb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, limbo in Trinidad and Tobago has survived in fragments. A showcase moment on the Best Village stage, a crowd-pleasing break in a Carnival launch, a tourist spectacle abroad performed by TT nationals far from home. Once a fiercely contested national competition, the artform slipped quietly out of the spotlight after 2008&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29656,3574,192],"tags":[95575,5384],"class_list":{"0":"post-891420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-limbo","8":"category-national","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-limbo","11":"tag-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}