{"id":2806,"date":"2020-11-26T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/26\/happy-thanksgiving-5\/"},"modified":"2020-11-26T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:32:38","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/26\/happy-thanksgiving-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">This <em>annus horribilis<\/em> of 2020 makes my <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/11\/gratitude-a-thanksgiving-homily.html\">annual Thanksgiving homily<\/a> ring somewhat hollow, especially the penultimate line:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">And don&#39;t forget the country that allows you to live your own kind of life in your own kind of way and say and write whatever you think in peace and safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">Still and all, we still have much to be grateful for.&#0160; But we will have to redouble our efforts to preserve the objects of our gratitude, in particular, our liberty, our &quot;sweet land of liberty.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c026bdea85753200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thanksgiving-images\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c026bdea85753200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c026bdea85753200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Thanksgiving-images\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This annus horribilis of 2020 makes my annual Thanksgiving homily ring somewhat hollow, especially the penultimate line: And don&#39;t forget the country that allows you to live your own kind of life in your own kind of way and say and write whatever you think in peace and safety. Still and all, we still have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/26\/happy-thanksgiving-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Thanksgiving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,302],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-gratitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}