{"id":2706,"date":"2012-11-22T19:55:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2012-11-22T19:55:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T19:55:04","slug":"thanksgiving-day-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/thanksgiving-day-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Day Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gotta be honest, I don&#8217;t get really &#8220;get&#8221; Thanksgiving. I like the four-day weekend, of course, and the pies &#8212; honestly, I could take or leave most of the traditional Thanksgiving-day foods, except for the pie &#8212; but the day itself has always seemed like kind of a second-tier holiday to me, really just a placeholder between the far more significant Halloween and Christmas, and nowadays of course nothing more than a prelude to the insanity of Black Friday shopping. And my personal history with it has not always been&#8230; good. And then there&#8217;s the ritual that seems to have sprung up of people publicly announcing online all the things for which they&#8217;re thankful, manifested most recently on Facebook as daily postings, one item a day, throughout the month of November. Um, yeah. That&#8217;s not really me either.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, I would like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving, and I hope when you sit down at your respective dinner tables, you do find <i>some<\/i> meaning in it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CE3K_potatoes-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2484 aligncenter\" alt=\"CE3K_potatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CE3K_potatoes-1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CE3K_potatoes-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CE3K_potatoes-1-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> (Extra credit if you get the meaning of that image!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gotta be honest, I don&#8217;t get really &#8220;get&#8221; Thanksgiving. I like the four-day weekend, of course, and the pies &#8212; honestly, I could take or leave most of the traditional Thanksgiving-day foods, except for the pie &#8212; but the day itself has always seemed like kind of a second-tier holiday to me, really just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}