{"id":176654,"date":"2025-11-26T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=176654"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:37:28","slug":"midweek-open-thread-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=176654","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-176653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-D-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-D-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-D-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-D-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-D-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-D.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ready for tomorrow? There are calls to &#8220;decolonize&#8221; Thanksgiving, and to see that day as &#8220;a day of mourning.&#8221; These folks seem to forget the <a href=\"https:\/\/legalunitedstates.com\/what-foods-were-eaten-at-the-first-thanksgiving\/\">story<\/a> where the settlers invited the Native Americans to their Thanksgiving dinner. After the settlers lost people the previous year, the Native Americans taught them how to deal with North American winters, how to effectively fish, and how to effectively grow crops. The settlers subsequently invited the Native Americans to what is considered the first Thanksgiving meal. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your midweek!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready for tomorrow? There are calls to &#8220;decolonize&#8221; Thanksgiving, and to see that day as &#8220;a &hellip; <a title=\"Midweek Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=176654\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}