{"id":69230,"date":"2016-11-24T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=69230"},"modified":"2016-11-21T20:27:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:27:37","slug":"thanksgiving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/24\/thanksgiving-2\/","title":{"rendered":"thanksgiving&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/thanksgiving-2015.jpg\" width=\"350\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup><em>With all the talk of immigration this last year, I&#8217;ve been particularly aware of my father&#8217;s childhood  stories &#8211; learning English when he went to school and growing up as a poor immigrant during the Depression in the coal belt. He came South to play football in college and never went back, saying ironically, &quot;There was so much less prejudice in the South&quot; &#8211; which makes absolutely no sense unless you walked in his shoes. By the time I came along, there was none of the adversity so obvious in his narrative. Each Thanksgiving, I remember those stories, both the triumphs and the scars. And I will be forever grateful that his father brought his young family to live in this place&#8230;<br \/>  <\/em><\/sup><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the talk of immigration this last year, I&#8217;ve been particularly aware of my father&#8217;s childhood stories &#8211; learning English when he went to school and growing up as a poor immigrant during the Depression in the coal belt. He came South to play football in college and never went back, saying ironically, &quot;There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69230"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69239,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69230\/revisions\/69239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}