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One of the great weirdnesses of living here in the UK is being reminded of how completely American a holiday Thanksgiving is, effectively ignored on the rest of the planet. (Much like American Football, to which it is quite closely connected!)<\/p>\n

‘Twere it not for various on-line reminders and communications from (American) friends and family, one could easily miss the whole thing. I, to be honest, only realized quite late in the day that Thanksgiving was today – I had been thinking it was next<\/em> week.<\/p>\n

But it’s today, so happy Thanksgiving! Now go read Athena’s cool Thanksgiving poem<\/a> and enjoy your feasts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the great weirdnesses of living here in the UK is being reminded of how completely American a holiday Thanksgiving is, effectively ignored on the rest of the planet. (Much like American Football, to which it is quite closely connected!) ‘Twere it not for various on-line reminders and communications from (American) friends and family, … Continue reading “Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,25,27,19],"tags":[873,122,65,124,875,123,38],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-family","category-sabbatical","category-travels","tag-family","tag-holidays","tag-my-photography","tag-poetry","tag-sabbatical","tag-thanksgiving","tag-travel"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-bC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":258,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/11\/15\/share-the-bill-of-rights-over-your-thanksgiving-dinner\/","url_meta":{"origin":720,"position":0},"title":"Share the Bill of Rights over your Thanksgiving dinner","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"15 Nov 05","format":false,"excerpt":"This is old news, but it's new to me (which just shows how out of it I am!). 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