{"id":30,"date":"2010-11-25T03:03:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/?p=30"},"modified":"2010-11-25T02:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T02:19:38","slug":"happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/2010\/11\/happy-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first thanksgiving dates back to of 1620 when the pilgrims escaped religious persecution in England.\u00a0 They fled to the Netherlands, where they stayed for some amount of time, but soon got to finance a pilgrimage to North America.\u00a0 The voyage lasted 12 weeks and when they reached Plymouth rock, the date was December 11, 1620.\u00a0 During that winter, they lost about half of the 102 pilgrims, because of the winter and the harsh conditions on their ship, the Mayflower.\u00a0 After the winter, the pilgrims had very little hope of survival.<\/p>\n

In the spring, the pilgrims voted to stay, and not return to England.\u00a0 During that spring, they met some Indians that helped them survive and plant crops.\u00a0 During that fall, the harvest was a bountiful one.\u00a0 The pilgrims celebrated the first thanksgiving, thanking God for surviving in the wilderness and for the bountiful harvest.\u00a0 91 Indians celebrated the feast with the pilgrims.\u00a0 For the feast they had fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, venison, plums, and boiled pumpkin.\u00a0 They also made fried bread from the corn they had produced.<\/p>\n

The first thanksgiving lasted three days.\u00a0 On the third day, Governor Bradford sent four men fowling.\u00a0 They came back with wild ducks and and geese.\u00a0 The second Thanksgiving would be celebrated 55 years later.\u00a0 This next thanksgiving was celebrated to show thanks for the good fortune of seeing the colony of Charleston, Mass., established.\u00a0 It was celebrated on June 29, 1676.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The next Thanksgiving was celebrated one hundred years later.\u00a0 This time, all thirteen colonies celebrated in the feast.\u00a0 It was celebrated in October, due to the victory over the British at Saratoga.\u00a0 In 1789, George Washington proclaimed a national day of thanks, although some opposed it.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1863, President Lincoln made the last Thursday in November a national day of thanks.\u00a0 Every president after Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanks on the same date.\u00a0 But in 1941, Congress established Thanksgiving as a national holiday, to be celebrated every fourth Thursday of November.<\/p>\n

To me Thanksgiving means a day we should be thankful for everything you have.\u00a0 You should count all your blessings more than you would regularly.\u00a0 I\u2019m thankful for a good family, good food, clothing and a roof over my head.\u00a0 I also think that Thanksgiving means a day to be kind to everyone.\u00a0 You should be kind regularly but you should be extra kind on Thanksgiving.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Thanksgiving means to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first thanksgiving dates back to of 1620 when the pilgrims escaped religious persecution in England.\u00a0 They fled to the Netherlands, where they stayed for some amount of time, but soon got to finance a pilgrimage to North America.\u00a0 The voyage lasted 12 weeks and when they reached Plymouth rock, the date was December 11, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-holiday","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}