{"id":413,"date":"2014-11-23T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/23\/giving-thanks-6\/"},"modified":"2014-11-23T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T15:24:00","slug":"giving-thanks-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/giving-thanks-6.html","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\nThanksgiving<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cOver the River and Through the Wood to Grandmother\u2019s House
\nWe Go\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
\n     The New England
\nBoy\u2019s Song About Thanksgiving Day<\/span><\/div>\n
\n      Lyrics by Lydia
\nMaria Child, 1844<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThis is supposedly the busiest travel time in the US, but
\nfew of us will be relying on transport by a horse-drawn sleigh through the
\nsnow.  Snow, we have.  The so-called polar vortex has frozen the
\ncountry and dumped feet of early snow. 
\nMost travelers will rely upon cars, buses, trains and planes.  This holiday is known for food,
\nfamily\/friends and football, as well as being the traditional start of the Christmas
\nholiday season.  I remember, as a child,
\nthe department stores didn\u2019t display Christmas decorations until after
\nThanksgiving, after all Santa didn\u2019t arrived at Macy\u2019s until the Thanksgiving
\nDay parade.  Nowadays the boughs are
\nhung in big box stores in late summer and the gift catalogs arrive in October.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\nI have been consoled by many TV and media ads which feature
\nthe true meaning of this holiday, that of giving thanks.  It shouldn\u2019t take a special day set aside
\nfor this activity, actually we all should set aside a minute or two each day to
\nexpress our gratitude or perform a simple act of kindness, or be thoughtful and
\npolite.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n                                          <\/div>\n
\n                                                                    Gobble, Gobble<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving \u201cOver the River and Through the Wood to Grandmother\u2019s House We Go\u201d      The New England Boy\u2019s Song About Thanksgiving Day       Lyrics by Lydia Maria Child, 1844 This is supposedly the busiest travel time in the US, but few of us will be relying on transport by a horse-drawn sleigh through the snow. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}