{"id":2272,"date":"2022-11-28T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2022-11-28T08:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:23:15","slug":"gratitude-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started this blog post last Thursday and then abandoned it. I know how problematic Thanksgiving is&#8230;after all, I grew up with the Peanuts version of happy Pilgrims and Native Americans sitting down together, a national myth that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/ClTRLRyvdKO\/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D\">glosses over the facts<\/a> as well as the history of colonization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, taking a day to express gratitude seems a positive practice. This year, we spent the evening with a group of new friends, and I watched <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Waltz\">The Last Waltz<\/a> while I made sweet potato pie and lemon bars. I tear up every time when Bob Dylan starts his set with &#8220;Forever Young&#8221;. This, for the reader(s) of this blog, is my wish for you and know that I am grateful for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jtFEzhaNrT4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog post last Thursday and then abandoned it. I know how problematic Thanksgiving is&#8230;after all, I grew up with the Peanuts version of happy Pilgrims and Native Americans sitting down together, a national myth that glosses over the facts as well as the history of colonization. However, taking a day to express &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gratitude Day<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[567,12],"tags":[588],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-movies","tag-gratitude"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-AE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}