{"id":1200,"date":"2015-11-23T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2015-11-23T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:59:38","slug":"20-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/20-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"#20: Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thanksgiving-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1201 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thanksgiving-crop-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"thanksgiving crop\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Thanksgiving<\/strong><br \/>\na poem by Paul D\u2019Angelo<\/p>\n<p>T\u2019was the night before Thanksgiving and all through the house,<br \/>\nMom was working her ass off, with no help from her spouse.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter was married, so her assistance was through,<br \/>\nThe boys always had something better to do.<\/p>\n<p>Mom shopped for the stuffing, the yams and the nuts,<br \/>\nShe even picked out the turkey and cleaned out the guts.<\/p>\n<p>She chopped and she diced for hours in the kitchen,<br \/>\nShe stirred and she whipped and not once started bitchin\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>On Thanksgiving morn\u2019 it was more of the same,<br \/>\nMom set the table, while they drank at the game.<\/p>\n<p>Back late and trashed, like they were every year,<br \/>\nThe work was all done, so they cracked open a beer.<\/p>\n<p>They sat down to dinner and dad gave the blessing,<br \/>\nWhile mom smiled to herself, because she had spit in the dressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[22,23,24,25,32,69,124],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-paul-dangelo","tag-dangelo","tag-comedy","tag-comedian","tag-comic","tag-paul-dangelo-paul-dangelo-comedy","tag-thanksgiving"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p614ww-jm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}