We are blog slackers.\u00a0 Sorry. \u00a0But I just gave you one more thing to be thankful for.\u00a0 This post.<\/p>\n
For one day every year the people of\u00a0our nation\u00a0are thankful.\u00a0\u00a0What are they thankful for?\u00a0 I’m sure that varies.\u00a0 We celebrate being thankful by stressing out our parents and\u00a0stuffing ourselves full of wonderful food.\u00a0 Perhaps we are thankful for food.\u00a0 Or our parents (or whoever prepared said food, i.e. typically\u00a0mom).\u00a0<\/p>\n
When I was growing up, I never gave much thought to Thanksgiving. \u00a0But now that I am of a certain age and asked to provide supplemental\u00a0food offerings for the blessed feast (and hinted at to come over early to help prepare), I\u00a0am\u00a0beginning to realize how much work goes into Thanksgiving dinner.\u00a0 I am not sure how slaving over a meal all day (sometimes starting the day before) is going to make me thankful for anything.\u00a0 Especially food.\u00a0 And family.\u00a0 Without both I would\u00a0not be slaving over anything, but watching football, the Christmas Story marathon, and\u00a0eating Twinkies and Doritos.\u00a0 Or going hungry.\u00a0 Perhaps we as a people should start fasting on Thanksgiving. \u00a0I know that would make me more thankful for food at least.\u00a0 And probably make me think of those\u00a0less fortunate than I who go hungry often.\u00a0 And perhaps I would appreciate\u00a0normal dinners more.\u00a0 Just saying.<\/p>\n
Or maybe I need to be\u00a0thankful\u00a0every\u00a0day that is not\u00a0Thanksgiving.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Any way you look at it Happy Thanksgiving.\u00a0 I am looking forward to spending time with family, although not so much for the kitchen part, and watching massive amounts of television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are blog slackers.\u00a0 Sorry. \u00a0But I just gave you one more thing to be thankful for.\u00a0 This post. For one day every year the people of\u00a0our nation\u00a0are thankful.\u00a0\u00a0What are they thankful for?\u00a0 I’m sure that varies.\u00a0 We celebrate being thankful by stressing out our parents and\u00a0stuffing ourselves full of wonderful food.\u00a0 Perhaps we are … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-far-flung-northern-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}