{"id":1849,"date":"2009-11-25T21:07:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/11\/25\/contemplations-%e2%80%93-thanksgiving-is-almost-here\/"},"modified":"2009-11-25T21:07:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:07:54","slug":"contemplations-%e2%80%93-thanksgiving-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/11\/25\/contemplations-%e2%80%93-thanksgiving-is-almost-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplations \u2013 Thanksgiving is almost here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is a great National Holiday \u2013 a day to give thanks, and I have a lot to be thankful for.  First, of course there is my family \u2013 my wife is a saint and my kids are truly precious.  Second, in these down and out economic times, I am gainfully employed; allowing me to pay the mortgage and allowing my wife to stay at home to home school the kids.<\/p>\n<p>So as I look to Thanksgiving, I have to thank the Good Lord above for all the blessings in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, bright and early I will be grilling a very non traditional Thanksgiving dinner \u2013 Boston butt roast (AKA pulled pork).  Hey, who likes turkey anyway?  Should be a good opportunity to see what the Weber Q 220 can do with a big \u2018ol hunk of meat.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you and yours have a blessed holiday!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is a great National Holiday \u2013 a day to give thanks, and I have a lot to be thankful for. First, of course there is my family \u2013 my wife is a saint and my kids are truly precious. Second, in these down and out economic times, I am gainfully employed; allowing me to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/11\/25\/contemplations-%e2%80%93-thanksgiving-is-almost-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contemplations \u2013 Thanksgiving is almost here!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","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-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}