{"id":2279,"date":"2003-11-27T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2021-05-31T22:55:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:55:36","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/foodbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; The eating season has begun, starting today and running pretty much through Christmas and New Year&#8217;s to Super Bowl Sunday. The days where we honor certain events by stuffing ourselves silly. The days that made me the short fat guy I am today.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And here we are once again at another Thanksgiving Day. I don&#8217;t know why some people insist on calling today Turkey Day. Any short fat guy knows the real reason we roast a turkey today is to provide the drippings for <b><i><u>GRAVY<\/u><\/i><\/b>!<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>Mmm, graaaavy&#8230;<\/I><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And on this day we are asked to look back at our lives and give thanks to providence for all our myriad blessings. It&#8217;s funny that if I step back and take in the broader view, the same things and situations that irritate me on a daily basis turn out to be many of the things I am thankful for now. Funny, innit.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Happy Gravy Day. May it be even more profound &#8212; and filling!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The eating season has begun, starting today and running pretty much through Christmas and New Year&#8217;s to Super Bowl Sunday. The days where we honor certain events by stuffing ourselves silly. The days that made me the short &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}