{"id":37981,"date":"2013-10-14T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37981"},"modified":"2013-10-14T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:51:16","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37981","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37982\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37982\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Canuk-flag.jpg\" alt=\"Canuk flag\" width=\"122\" height=\"91\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37982\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our buddy, Aunty Brat, sends her <a href=\"http:\/\/assolutatranquillita.blogspot.ca\/2013\/10\/from-this-canadian-thanks.html\">Thanksgiving Day wishes <\/a>to us from the frozen North;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first Canadian thanksgiving was celebrated on 15th April 1872 to thank the recovery of King Edward VII from serious illness. The next thanksgiving was celebrated after a few years in 1879 on a Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the history of the day is at the link.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This year, as for the last few, this day holds special poignancy for me. Yes, I absolutely give thanks for all the blessings I have, but my thoughts always stray to Afghanistan where members of our Canadian &#8216;family&#8217; are right now (and yes, we DO still have Canadian troops far from home in Afghanistan.)  I think about the Canadians who have given their lives so that I and my family might be together, safely celebrating this day. As I hug my now grown child, I give a silent thanks to those families who this year will have an empty chair at their family table.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So stop by and give her our best wishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Aunty Brat, sends her Thanksgiving Day wishes to us from the frozen North; The &hellip; <a title=\"Happy Thanksgiving Day\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37981\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Thanksgiving Day<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}