{"id":332,"date":"2009-07-20T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=332"},"modified":"2009-07-20T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T14:44:00","slug":"le-pays-de-la-sagouine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/le-pays-de-la-sagouine\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Pays de la Sagouine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/sagouine2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagouine.com\/\">Le Pays de la Sagouine<\/a> on the weekend. It\u2019s an Acadian heritage park with dramas, live music, cooking demonstrations, kids activities, tours and historic buildings. It is located in Bouctouche on the east coast of New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p>Our tour began with a \u00bd hour account of the history of the Acadians complete with a demonstration of how to play the spoons and the reason for the quinquennial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cma2009.ca\/\">Congr\u00e8s Acadian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/sagouine3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We then walked the boardwalk to the little island that houses a village on stilts. We tried poutine rap\u00e9e, listened to some Acadian tunes, watched a drama put on by the chicaneuses, and toured the little shops and demos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/sagouine4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was wild hearing the strong Acadian accent being used in a public forum \u2013 I\u2019m used to it in private conversations, but publicly it\u2019s pretty hilarious with all of its idioms and contractions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/sagouine1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We visited Le Pays de la Sagouine on the weekend. It\u2019s an Acadian heritage park with dramas, live music, cooking demonstrations, kids activities, tours and historic buildings. It is located in Bouctouche on the east coast of New Brunswick. Our tour began with a \u00bd hour account of the history of the Acadians complete with &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/le-pays-de-la-sagouine\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-332","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-canadiana","9":"category-food","10":"category-travel","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}