{"id":56,"date":"2011-02-02T04:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T11:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-03-01T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:00:21","slug":"french-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"French Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greetings again from Laos, one of the most pleasant and peaceful countries I have ever visited.\u00a0 The people here do not believe in drama, in hurrying, in raising their voices, or in bad feelings.\u00a0 They live life as peacefully as they can.\u00a0 We should all take some lessons from them.\u00a0 Now on to today’s topic.<\/p>\n

You all know what a French twist is, right?\u00a0 The glamorous stars of days gone by wore them so eloquently in the movies.\u00a0 Think Audrey Hephurn in “Breakfast at Tiffany”.\u00a0 Princess Grace wore one on her church wedding day (as opposed\u00a0 to her civil wedding day.) If you have ever watched old movies on AMC, I am sure you have seen a French twist here and there\u00a0on the lovely starlets.\u00a0 There are also a bunch of these hair styles on “Mad Men.”<\/p>\n

Well, Laos has its own French twist, thanks to\u00a0the French colonization of this country from 1893 until 1949.\u00a0 You can see it in their architecture, taste it in their food, and witness it on the streets.\u00a0 Take a look at the following photos and enjoy a French twist.<\/p>\n

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\nThe street signs are written in both Lao and in French.
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\nThe French had a major impact on architecture as in this French colonial house where\u00a0Carol Cassidy’s weaving shop is located.\u00a0 Her products are sold in many upscale U.S. shops like Barney’s and the Guggenheim Museum Shop.\u00a0 There will be an upcoming blog entry on her amazing work.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThis is the Lao version of\u00a0l’ Arc de Triomphe.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nOne day we had lunch at the Lycee de Vientiane and ate croque monsieur (fancy ham and cheese sandwich), pomme frites (French fries) and salad vert (green salad.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThis was a sandwich de jambon (ham sandwich.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nOh la la!\u00a0 A croissant from Cafe d’Or.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Congrats to Carol who is our winner in the wire contest.\u00a0 Thanks for all the guesses, and Random.org picked Carol as the lucky winner.\u00a0 Carol ,I’ll send you an email to get your address to mail you the gift.\u00a0 Please keep reading for more contests in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Greetings again from Laos, one of the most pleasant and peaceful countries I have ever visited.\u00a0 The people here do not believe in drama, in hurrying, in raising their voices, or in bad feelings.\u00a0 They live life as peacefully as they can.\u00a0 We should all take some lessons from them.\u00a0 Now on to today’s topic. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}