{"id":1399,"date":"2012-11-21T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T07:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2012-11-21T07:20:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T07:20:20","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2012\/11\/21\/happy-thanksgiving-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a part of me (yeah, it&#8217;s the age thing) that has the urge to go to McDonalds and Pizza Hut on Thursday. \u00a0That was our family &#8220;tradition&#8221; when we were stationed in England. \u00a0London for the day &#8211; lunch at one place and dinner at the other. \u00a0A little America for the Runges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-20-at-9.12.21-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1402\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-11-20 at 9.12.21 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-20-at-9.12.21-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a>Carol and the Grunge have now transitioned to the home crew&#8230;we&#8217;ll welcome Court and family from Pennsylvania and Chris and family from Virginia. \u00a0They won&#8217;t be &#8220;home&#8221; long, but it&#8217;s a chance to catch up and eat way too much. \u00a0(My period of eating without guilt from the Grand Canyon hike is WAY OVER!)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1401\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/glass-half-full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1401\" title=\"glass-half-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/glass-half-full-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/glass-half-full-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/glass-half-full.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s Over Half!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carol will tell you the Grunge is a glass-half-empty-kind-of-guy. \u00a0She&#8217;s put up with me for so long&#8230;enough of that. \u00a0However, Thanksgiving, regardless of your circumstances or your outlook, is a glass-at-least-half-full time.<\/p>\n<p>It just is.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s to you, our friends. \u00a0Enjoy the time. \u00a0Give thanks for all you have&#8230;most importantly those people who call you family or friend.<\/p>\n<p>And, don&#8217;t forget the Big Guy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a part of me (yeah, it&#8217;s the age thing) that has the urge to go to McDonalds and Pizza Hut on Thursday. \u00a0That was our family &#8220;tradition&#8221; when we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/glass-half-full.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}