{"id":10,"date":"2006-11-08T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=10"},"modified":"2006-11-23T16:59:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T21:59:44","slug":"08-november-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I put out my Thanksgiving decorations. There’s the little turkey wearing a sign that says \u0093eat beef.\u0094 The tin bucket thingie that says \u0093give thanks\u0094 and, of course, the glass turkey candy dish. Kaitlyn and I made a turkey out of construction paper, which she painted. It is lovely.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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I am not really sure why I felt such a burning desire to display my dinde doo-dads. (note: dinde is turkey in French. Something I wish I’d known the other day at… yes, Carrefour… when I kept seeing poultry labeled \u0093dinde\u0094 but I was too afraid to buy it because there was no picture. Duh, like how many kinds of poultry are there other than chicken which I know is poulet, duck which I know is canard and TURKEY? DUH)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Anyway, I have now seasoned my home with a taste of Thanksgiving… a holiday I had to explain to my French teacher. Before I moved, someone pointed out my near obsession with being able to obtain Thanksgiving food here. (I even had read that there is a store in Paris where one can buy American food. The name? Thanksgiving, of course. A Google search shows it is true.) I explained it away, saying I just love the foods served at the traditional gorging. True enough. I do. I could eat them all the time. But that isn’t really why I have latched onto the holiday this year. Suddenly, I feel some need to really think about what it is that I am thankful for.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Ok. Let’s think about it.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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My husband. He doesn’t always listen but he’s always, ALWAYS there for me.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

My daughter. See above note about husband, it pretty much applies here.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

My family.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

My friends. I found out when I left North Carolina just how many friends I’d really made.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

My French-English dictionary.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Today I put out my Thanksgiving decorations. There’s the little turkey wearing a sign that says \u0093eat beef.\u0094 The tin bucket thingie that says \u0093give thanks\u0094 and, of course, the glass turkey candy dish. Kaitlyn and I made a turkey out of construction paper, which she painted. It is lovely. I am not really sure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}