{"id":14,"date":"2006-01-30T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T19:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simpletone.com\/cdi\/aharon\/writing\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2016-11-19T20:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T04:54:36","slug":"vermillion-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/01\/vermillion-parish","title":{"rendered":"Vermilion Parish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received my deployment details. I&#8217;ll be heading to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vermillion_Parish\">Vermillion Parish<\/a> in southwestern Louisiana, a largely rural parish in the heart of Cajun country where a number of small towns (population less than 5000) were devastated. I am very excited! I&#8217;ll be staying in Abbeville (or nearby) and filling in a gap with the local team there which needs help writing and editing and synthesizing their planning documents and reports.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be some confusion as to the correct spelling of the parish. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vermilion.org\">Vermilion Parish Tourist Commission<\/a> spells the parish with one L. But historically, it appears to have been spelled with two Ls. Here is a map I found online of the parish from 1895 with the older spelling:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/vermillion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/vermillion.jpg\" alt=\"Vermillion Parish (1895)\" width=\"900\" height=\"636\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/vermillion.jpg 900w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/vermillion-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/vermillion-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/vermillion-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/vermillion-400x283.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is an image of one of the rice fields. Rice farming is an economic base of Vermillion parish. Rice fields double as crayfish ponds. (The crayfish are nourished by the rice roots.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/IMG_2089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/IMG_2089-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_2089\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/IMG_2089-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/IMG_2089-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/IMG_2089-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/IMG_2089-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/IMG_2089-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope to have more information to post soon, but I must take care of some chores and get on the road to Abbeville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received my deployment details. I&#8217;ll be heading to Vermillion Parish in southwestern Louisiana, a largely rural parish in the heart of Cajun country where a number of small towns (population less than 5000) were devastated. I am very excited! I&#8217;ll be staying in Abbeville (or nearby) and filling in a gap with the <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/01\/vermillion-parish\">Vermilion Parish<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vermilion Parish &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/01\/vermillion-parish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vermilion Parish &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I just received my deployment details. 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About a month earlier,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Reports from the Front&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Reports from the Front","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/adventure"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/02\/this-group-needs-your-help","url_meta":{"origin":14,"position":3},"title":"This group needs your help","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"February 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Just got forwarded a link from a contact I made in Baton Rouge about a group concerned about the welfare of animals in Vermilion Parish. As it happens, one of the National Guardsman in my team, and his wife, have long been active with the group. They need some basic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Reports from the Front&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Reports from the Front","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/adventure"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/02\/things-ive-been-doing-i-forgot-to-blog-about","url_meta":{"origin":14,"position":4},"title":"Slacker","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"February 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Just briefly, here are the things I meant to blog about but haven't yet, in no satisfactory chronological order. Just got to get them down or else I'll forget to write about them entirely. 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