{"id":6258,"date":"2010-11-25T07:09:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T14:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2010-11-25T08:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T15:20:44","slug":"its-thanksgiving-morning-time-to-give-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=6258","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Thanksgiving Morning&#8230; Time To Give Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/11\/brrr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6264\" title=\"brrr\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/11\/brrr.png\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/11\/brrr.png 205w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/11\/brrr-114x150.png 114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>Not just today but every day I give thanks to God for being blessed with living in such a magnificent land and being allowed to find and share my life with my most wonderful wife Sue,\u00a0 our family and dear friends. Life does not get better than this!\u00a0<strong> <a href=\"\/thanksgiving\/2010\/index.htm\">Join Us!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember: <span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">Thanksgiving  is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life&#8230;  a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons,  the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year &#8211; and  the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.\u00a0 ~Ray Stannard  Baker <\/span><\/p>\n<p>As George Washington said in 1789&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to <em>&#8220;recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not just today but every day I give thanks to God for being blessed with living in such a magnificent land and being allowed to find and share my life with my most wonderful wife Sue,\u00a0 our family and dear &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=6258\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6272,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions\/6272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}