{"id":162,"date":"2009-11-27T04:14:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T04:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/thanksgiving-iii-return-of-the-turkey\/"},"modified":"2009-11-27T04:14:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T04:14:16","slug":"thanksgiving-iii-return-of-the-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/thanksgiving-iii-return-of-the-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving III &#8211; Return of the Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the third Thanksgiving we have attended in a row since we moved here, and it was probably the best so far. Our nieces and nephews have progressed from babies into the realm of children: Mikey <i>walked<\/i> in wearing a nice shirt, an Argyle tank-top and sensible shoes, all that was missing was a pipe; Siena is taking pleasure in just about everything around her; and Gianna wanted to play hide-and-seek an infinite number of times.<br \/>\nAlso the food was first class and so plentiful that I was in a turkey coma for most of the evening. The turkey was <i>grilled<\/i>, which was a new concept for me, but it was spectacular! It was possibly the best turkey I&#8217;ve ever tasted. There was also a selection of hors d&#8217;oeuvres that would have sufficed as a full meal: deviled-eggs, yummy-sausagey-cheesey-bready-things, dips, wasabi-peas and allsorts were all available and plentiful.<\/p>\n<p>And then home for parrots, wine, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0202381\/\">Guest House Paradiso<\/a>. And no work until next Tuesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the third Thanksgiving we have attended in a row since we moved here, and it was probably the best so far. Our nieces and nephews have progressed from babies into the realm of children: Mikey walked in wearing a nice shirt, an Argyle tank-top and sensible shoes, all that was missing was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}