{"id":6039,"date":"2012-05-14T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2012-06-19T11:36:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T18:36:56","slug":"franco-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/franco-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summerguide 2012<\/p>\n<h3>Maybe you didn&#8217;t hear me. <em>&#8220;Bienvenue au Maine.&#8221;<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>By Rhea C\u00f4t\u00e9 Robbins<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>While the majority of Mainers are of French heritage, their presence as speakers of that language is but a whisper. Yet, acting like a detective, one finds a sense of conversational French is alive and well and living here, everywhere you\u00a0turn. The trick is to create your own DIY tour. With a few starting points, you can get the lowdown on each town\u2013where to get hooked-up with local cuisine, conversations, and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/Franco%20Files.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/paris_lewiston-roscillo_maine-imaging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6066\" title=\"paris_lewiston-roscillo_maine-imaging\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/paris_lewiston-roscillo_maine-imaging.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/paris_lewiston-roscillo_maine-imaging.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/paris_lewiston-roscillo_maine-imaging-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summerguide 2012<br \/>\nMaybe you didn&#8217;t hear me. &#8220;Bienvenue au Maine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}