I have told sev\u00ader\u00adal of my friends about this great hol\u00adi\u00adday that I grew up with. I am not sure that any of them believed me. So here is the proof.<\/p>\n
For years around Ville Plat\u00adte the open\u00ading day of squir\u00adrel season\u2014the first Sat\u00adur\u00adday in October\u2014has been known as \u201cSquir\u00adrel Day.\u201d Schools close ear\u00adly the day before\u2014some don\u2019t open at all\u2014because atten\u00addance by stu\u00addents and teach\u00aders alike is cut in half. Busi\u00adness\u00ades shut\u00adter their win\u00addows. Every\u00adbody heads for \u201ccamp,\u201d they call it, and that can mean a sleep\u00ading bag in the back of a pick\u00adup truck or a deluxe hunt lodge wired for elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty, with air-con\u00addi\u00adtion\u00ading and big-screen TVs. \u201cSquir\u00adrel Day is the Cajun Passover,\u201d explains Ville Plat\u00adte native Tim Fontenot. \u201cThere\u2019s a mass exo\u00addus into the woods.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I have told sev\u00ader\u00adal of my friends about this great hol\u00adi\u00adday that I grew up with. I am not sure that any of them believed me. So here is the proof. For years around Ville Plat\u00adte the open\u00ading day of squir\u00adrel season\u2014the first Sat\u00adur\u00adday in October\u2014has been known as \u201cSquir\u00adrel Day.\u201d Schools close ear\u00adly the \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cSquir\u00adrel Day\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-4F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}