{"id":805,"date":"2006-11-10T11:28:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T11:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/10\/thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T11:28:46","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/10\/thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn’t actually another political post, though Allen conceding to Webb<\/a> is certainly happy news, and something to be thankful for.<\/p>\n

No, this post is about the holiday of Thanksgiving. Specifically, the fact that Kate and I will be hosting Thanksgiving at our house for both sets of parents, plus my sister, my grandmother, and one of my great-aunts. We’re looking at nine for dinner, with turkey and all the trimmings, as they say.<\/p>\n

Of course, while we have actually hosted more than nine people on several occasions, most of those involved students or other faculty, who are less demanding about the preparation and presentation of food. And neither of us has ever roasted a turkey, so this is going to be something of an adventure…<\/p>\n

So, consider this an open request for Thanksgiving tips and tricks. Do you know the One True Way of preparing a Thanksgiving turkey? Leave the secret in the comments. Do you have a palatable alternative to that disgusting cranberry glop? I’d love to hear it. A can’t-miss side dish? I’ll try anything, once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn’t actually another political post, though Allen conceding to Webb is certainly happy news, and something to be thankful for. No, this post is about the holiday of Thanksgiving. Specifically, the fact that Kate and I will be hosting Thanksgiving at our house for both sets of parents, plus my sister, my grandmother, and… Continue reading Thanksgiving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}