{"id":267,"date":"2004-07-01T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T15:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2004\/07\/01\/you-know-youre-from-louisiana\/"},"modified":"2004-07-01T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T16:15:43","slug":"you-know-youre-from-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/07\/01\/you-know-youre-from-louisiana","title":{"rendered":"You Know You\u2019re From Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got one of those for\u00adwards from a friend (Brandt Noel) this morn\u00ading. He nev\u00ader for\u00adwards me stuff, so I decid\u00aded to take a look at it. I liked it!<\/p>\n

In abridged ver\u00adsion, here\u2019s a Louisiana primer:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. There are 5,000 types of snakes, and 4,998 live in Louisiana. <\/li>\n
  2. Squir\u00adrels will eat any\u00adthing. And folks in Louisiana will eat squir\u00adrel. <\/li>\n
  3. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites. <\/li>\n
  4. It is not a shop\u00adping cart, it is a bug\u00adgy. <\/li>\n
  5. \u201cFix\u00adin\u00adto\u201d is one word. <\/li>\n
  6. There ain\u2019t no such thing as \u201clunch.\u201d There\u2019s \u201cdin\u00adner\u201d and then
    \nthere\u2019s \u201csup\u00adper.\u201d!\n<\/li>\n
  7. Sweet tea is appro\u00adpri\u00adate for all meals, and you start drink\u00ading it when you\u2019re two.\n<\/li>\n
  8. \u201cJeet?\u201d is actu\u00adal\u00adly a phrase mean\u00ading \u201cDid you eat?\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And you know you\u2019re from LA (Louisiana, that is) if:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. You mea\u00adsure dis\u00adtance in min\u00adutes. <\/li>\n
    2. You use \u201cfix\u201d as a verb. Exam\u00adple: I am fix\u00ading to go to the store. <\/li>\n
    3. You \u201caxe\u201d peo\u00adple ques\u00adtions. Exam\u00adple: I got some\u00adthin\u2019 to axe you \u2019bout.<\/li>\n
    4. You only own four spices: salt, Tony\u2019s, Tabas\u00adco and ketchup. <\/li>\n
    5. The local papers cov\u00ader nation\u00adal and inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal news on one page
      \nand six pages for local gos\u00adsip and sports. <\/li>\n
    6. You think that the first day deer sea\u00adson is a nation\u00adal hol\u00adi\u00adday. <\/li>\n
    7. You find 100 degrees Fahren\u00adheit \u201ca lit\u00adtle warm.\u201d <\/li>\n
    8. You know all four sea\u00adsons: almost sum\u00admer, sum\u00admer, still sum\u00admer,
      \nand Christ\u00admas. <\/li>\n
    9. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gum\u00adbo weath\u00ader. <\/li>\n
    10. A car\u00adbon\u00adat\u00aded soft drink isn\u2019t a soda, cola, or pop\u2026it\u2019s a Coke, regard\u00adless of brand or fla\u00advor. Exam\u00adple: \u201cWhat kin\u00adna coke you want?\u201d<\/li>\n
    11. Fried Cat\u00adfish is the oth\u00ader white meat. <\/li>\n
    12. You laugh out loud when you vis\u00adit friends from oth\u00ader states and they com\u00adplain about the humid\u00adi\u00adty.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I got one of those for\u00adwards from a friend (Brandt Noel) this morn\u00ading. He nev\u00ader for\u00adwards me stuff, so I decid\u00aded to take a look at it. I liked it! In abridged ver\u00adsion, here\u2019s a Louisiana primer: There are 5,000 types of snakes, and 4,998 live in Louisiana. Squir\u00adrels will eat any\u00adthing. And folks in \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cYou Know You\u2019re From Louisiana\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-4j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}