{"id":1874,"date":"2011-11-24T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2011-11-18T00:04:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:04:34","slug":"happy-thinksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thinksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thinksgiving.\u00a0 That’s not a typo.\u00a0 OK, it was<\/strong> a typo, but on reflection I left it there – because I decided that the things I’m thankful for require thought.<\/p>\n

I’m thankful for people who can see past the end of their scripture.\u00a0 Be it a Bible, Koran, Talmud, or the CyberTaoTeChing, I’m thankful for people who can read them for the good these books\u00a0can do, for the joy and the peace they can bring, without building walls in their minds.\u00a0 These books are filled with slogans, in many forms, and a good slogan can stop thought for 50 years.\u00a0 I’m thankful for people who can think their way past them.<\/p>\n

I’m thankful for family, those by blood and those by bonds of friendship.\u00a0 Family is what we say it is, the tribal ties that we forge or we inherit by accident of birth with those around us.\u00a0 I am lucky to have mine, and happy to be cooking for many of them today.<\/p>\n

I’m thankful for my luck to have been born in an interesting time of change and of plenty, in this Western World.\u00a0 These are not good days for all, but they are still good days for us – and likely for all who can read these words today – and I am thankful.<\/p>\n

I am thankful for the Reigning Queen of Pink, for a thousand reasons, not least of which is that she\u00a0loads the toothpaste on\u00a0my toothbrush, and SOBUMD’s,\u00a0every night.\u00a0 No one asked her to, she just decided a few months ago that she could, and so she does.\u00a0 Damned handy kid sometimes.\u00a0 I stumble upstairs in the dark after reading into the night, and it’s there.\u00a0 Thanks for that.\u00a0 I am thankful for the Human Tape Recorder’s willingness and increasing ability to be my sous chef; she can make eggs, cookies,\u00a0and brownies on her own, on request.\u00a0\u00a0 I am thankful for Number One Son, who teaches me a little every day about how people can be different and still be the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I am thankful for readers, meaning people who read books, and Readers, meaning all of you lovely people who read me.\u00a0 Your adolation is like crack to me, you know that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And last I am thankful for SOBUMD, who makes it all possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Happy Thinksgiving to you all!\u00a0 What are you thinkful for this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m thankful for my luck to have been born in an interesting time of change and of plenty, in this Western World. These are not good days for all, but they are still good days for us – and likely for all who can read these words today – and I am thankful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,42,47,3,5,40,10,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}