{"id":3855,"date":"2014-11-27T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2014-11-27T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T17:02:26","slug":"thankful-on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3855","title":{"rendered":"Thankful on Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving is a time for making lists of those things for which we are thankful, and this year is no exception. Without further ado, a short list of things for which I am thankful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am thankful for my health, without which I would need to actually pay attention to all this Obamacare stuff.<\/li>\n<li>I am thankful for my wide and extended family and friends, some of whom still read this once in a while despite the lack of updates.<\/li>\n<li>I am thankful for my kids, who still find ways to make me say &#8220;Huh?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I am thankful beyond measure for SOBUMD, without whom I would still be pumping gas in Hope, Arkansas.<\/li>\n<li>I am thankful for my job, without which I wouldn&#8217;t have any reasons to get good and angry about things, which considering my low blood pressure is one of the few things keeping me alive on a week to week basis.<\/li>\n<li>I am thankful for Thomas the Tank Engine, who was finally fished out of the subwoofer the other day, after about 8 years. We&#8217;d wondered where the hell that thing had gone.<\/li>\n<li>I am thankful for beer, more than I can ever say.<\/li>\n<li>I am thankful for being a middle-aged, middle-class white guy in America right now. Guilty, and sometimes nauseous, but thankful. My life is not easy, but it is not hard.<\/li>\n<li>I am thankful for ridiculous password requirements, which provide me an excuse to type really vile swearwords in the office every morning.<\/li>\n<li>I am thankful for coffee, for many of the same reasons as beer, but in the morning.<\/li>\n<li>I am thankful for all the assholes in the world, who make the few really nice people stand out in sharp relief. If you&#8217;re not casting a shadow, think about which group you&#8217;re in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, I am thankful for ducks, without which I would have to cook and eat another damn turkey today.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and all of yours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and all of yours!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}