{"id":711,"date":"2008-11-28T21:13:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T02:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2008-11-28T21:13:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T02:13:55","slug":"thanksgiving-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2008\/11\/thanksgiving-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thanksgiving<\/strong>, or <strong>Thanksgiving Day<\/strong>, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, at the end of the harvest season, is an annual <a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">American<\/a> <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Federal holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_holiday\">Federal holiday<\/a> to express <a title=\"Gratitude\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gratitude\">thanks<\/a> for one&#8217;s material and spiritual possessions.<\/p>\n<p>Most people celebrate by gathering at home with family or friends for a holiday feast. Though the holiday&#8217;s origins can be traced to <a title=\"Harvest festival\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvest_festival\">harvest festivals<\/a> which have been celebrated in many cultures since ancient times, the American holiday has religious undertones related to the deliverance of the English settlers by <a title=\"Native Americans in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States\">Native Americans<\/a> after the brutal winter at <a title=\"Plymouth, Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plymouth,_Massachusetts\">Plymouth, Massachusetts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The period from Thanksgiving Day through <a title=\"New Year's Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Year%27s_Day\">New Year&#8217;s Day<\/a> often is called the <em><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Holiday season\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holiday_season\">holiday season<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veterans_Day#cite_note-1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>read more at <a title=\"Veteran's Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n<p>I hope you all enjoy your day off.<\/p>\n<p>iron wil<\/p>\n<p>p.s. &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; is NOT a holiday, but an insane shopping tradition partaken of by millions of Americans continent wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, at the end of the harvest season, is an annual American Federal holiday to express thanks for one&#8217;s material and spiritual possessions. Most people celebrate by gathering at home with family or friends for a holiday feast. Though the holiday&#8217;s origins can be traced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[392,393,331],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-black-friday","tag-thanksgiving","tag-us-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}